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Acute aortic dissection with painless paraplegia: report of 2 cases.

Aktas C, Cinar O, Ay D, Gürses B, Hasmanoglu H

Department of Emergency Medicine, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. canaktas@gmail.com

Acute aortic dissection is often a life-threatening event that usually presents as a sudden, severe, exquisitely painful, ripping sensation in the chest or back. There are a few reports of atypical findings or no pain in the literature. We report 2 patients with painless acute aortic dissection who presented to the emergency department (ED) with sudden onset paraplegia.

Published 6 June 2008 in Am J Emerg Med, 26(5): 631.e3-5.
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