THORACAL AORTIC TRANSECTION FOLLOWING A BLUNT TRAUMA: TWO CASES REPORT

Acute aortic transection after blunt trauma is a clinical situation, with a high mortality. When the other system injuries are predominant, the diagnosis could be possible only if it would be considered. These type of cases are usually die. The survivors are generally the cases of whom be diagnosed incidentally. Two cases who were admitted to our clinic due to falling down (suicide attempt) were diagnosed as aortic transection and were immediately operated. End to end greft interpositions were perfom1ed by 'lsing left atrio-femoral bypass in one patient and femoro-femoral bypass in the othel: Systemic examinations of all the patients who are referred to the hospital after blunt trauma should be done completely and the physician should be alarmed for possible aortic transection or dissection.

KÜNT TRAVMA SONRASI OLUÞAN TORAKAL AORTÝK TRANSEKSÝYON: ÝKÝ OLGU SUNUMU