Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of descendent thoracic aorta solved by aortal stentgraft repair followed by development of fatal aortoesophageal fistula
2015
Abstract
Traumatic pseudoaneurysms are relatively frequently mentioned in textbooks of pathology and forensic medicine but their incidence in pathologicla reports is seldom documented. Our described case presented a patient who suffered from chronic alcoholism and who was repreatedly hospitalised because of various injuries including epidural and subdural hematomas.
We present a case of a 69-year old man who was hospitalised after nonspecifick blunt chest injury with chest pain and dysphagia. By computed tomography the traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descendent thoracic aorta was diagnosed pressing the eosophageal wlal which was solved by implantation of aortal stent graft (TEVAR - thoracic endovascular aortic/aneurysm repair).