Doctors in Moscow replaced a section of the aorta in a patient due to an aneurysm that developed due to an accident 10 years ago. In the federal state budgetary institution "The National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after. A.N. "Bakulev" of the Ministry of Health of Russia, a young patient was admitted with a thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm. The pathology was manifested as abdominal pain. Over time it became more frequent and began to radiate to the area between the shoulder blades. A chest X-ray indicated an aortic aneurysm. An enhanced CT scan confirmed the diagnosis: the aneurysm was located from the lower third of the thoracic region to the supravisceral abdominal aorta. It turned out that the cause of the aneurysm was a ten-year-old injury. At the age of 14, the patient was involved in a serious car accident. She was sitting in the back seat and not wearing a seat belt and flew through the windshield. The patient received a combined injury: lacerations of the spleen, liver lobes, injuries to the chest, abdomen, left kidney, cervical spine and traumatic rupture of the jejunum. The situation was serious and a tracheotomy was required. Then the doctors saved the boy, but years later the consequences reminded themselves. After an examination and telemedicine consultation, the doctors at the place of residence referred the patient to the center in Kolb for surgical intervention. A cardiovascular surgeon, MD, spoke in more detail. Vassili Papitashvili: "We consider this case to be unique: a chest aneurysm of a traumatic nature, which starts just below the isthmus, in an atypical place for a tear, just below the arterial ligament. Traumatic aneurysms are usually local in nature, they form in the region of the isthmus where the aorta spreads at the level of the disma and in this case spreads. of the opening of the celiac compartment and had the appearance of a thoracic aneurysm. The analysis belonged to the highest complexity category, the fourth. The surgical team performed an aneurysmectomy with prostheses and branch grafting.

Doctors in Moscow replaced a section of the aorta in a patient due to an aneurysm that developed due to an accident 10 years ago. In the federal state budgetary institution "The National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after. A.N. "Bakulev" of the Ministry of Health of Russia, a young patient was admitted with a thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm. The pathology was manifested as abdominal pain. Over time it became more frequent and began to radiate to the area between the shoulder blades. A chest X-ray indicated an aortic aneurysm. An enhanced CT scan confirmed the diagnosis: the aneurysm was located from the lower third of the thoracic region to the supravisceral abdominal aorta. It turned out that the cause of the aneurysm was a ten-year-old injury. At the age of 14, the patient was involved in a serious car accident. She was sitting in the back seat and not wearing a seat belt and flew through the windshield. The patient received a combined injury: lacerations of the spleen, liver lobes, injuries to the chest, abdomen, left kidney, cervical spine and traumatic rupture of the jejunum. The situation was serious and a tracheotomy was required. Then the doctors saved the boy, but years later the consequences reminded themselves. After an examination and telemedicine consultation, the doctors at the place of residence referred the patient to the center in Kolb for surgical intervention. A cardiovascular surgeon, MD, spoke in more detail. Vassili Papitashvili: "We consider this case to be unique: a chest aneurysm of a traumatic nature, which starts just below the isthmus, in an atypical place for a tear, just below the arterial ligament. Traumatic aneurysms are usually local in nature, they form in the region of the isthmus where the aorta spreads at the level of the disma and in this case spreads. of the opening of the celiac compartment and had the appearance of a thoracic aneurysm. The analysis belonged to the highest complexity category, the fourth. The surgical team performed an aneurysmectomy with prostheses and branch grafting.