Intermittent ischemia caused by dissection of the abdominal aorta through myxoid degeneration. Case report
Pedrini, L.; Bacchini, P.; Paragona, O.
International Angiology a Journal of the International Union of Angiology 4(3): 359-363
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0392-9590 PMID: 3831157 Document Number: 248320
Acute intermittent ischemia is generally caused by altered vasomotion and rarely by aortic dissection. There is reported a case of dissection of the abdominal aorta which presented a mixoid degeneration of the inner wall. The surgical finding was similar to a medio intimal aortic cylinder obtained generally during endarterectomy. Five years after the operation (endarterectomy of the mixoid cylinder) the patient presents a good patency of the aortoiliac area.