1. [Acute dissection of the infrarenal aorta and horseshoe kidney. Apropos of a case and review of the literature].
- Author
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Bertin F, Christides C, Cornu E, Virot P, Laskar M, Lacroix P, Serhal C, Sekkal S, and Ghossein Y
- Subjects
- Aortic Dissection diagnostic imaging, Angiography, Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal diagnostic imaging, Blood Vessel Prosthesis, Humans, Kidney surgery, Male, Middle Aged, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Aortic Dissection surgery, Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal surgery, Kidney abnormalities, Kidney Diseases surgery
- Abstract
We report about one case of acute dissection of the infrarenal abdominal aorta associated with a horseshoe kidney. A few points in the history of this 47-year-old patient deserve being underscored: the absence of an "etiological" factor of aortic dissection, the presence of five renal arteries, illustrating the complex vascularity of a horseshoe kidney, the specific surgical problems arising from both a lesion of the aortic junction and a horseshoe kidney. On the basis of the literature, we underline the incidence of dissection of the infrarenal aorta (1 to 3%), that of horseshoe kidney (0.15%) and that of pathology of the aortic junction in patients with a horseshoe kidney, which seems to be accidental.
- Published
- 1992