Acute thrombotic occlusion of abdominal aorta: a case report

Gönenç Kocabay,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.4669

Gönenç Kocabay¹, Bilal Boztosun¹, Sabit Karakaya², Sunay Ergün³

¹Department of Cardiology, Kartal Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
²Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kartal Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
³Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Kartal Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.4669

Acute abdominal aortic occlusion is an infrequent vascular surgical emergency condition which requires early intervention due to its fatal outcome. In this article, we presented a 44-year-old diabetic, smoker female case of acute abdominal aortic occlusion due to thrombosis and managed by an institutional policy based on the information derived from the review of literature.

Keywords : Abdominal aorta; acute occlusion; lower limb paralysis

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