Traumatic aortic injury
Last revised by Francis Deng on 19 Dec 2019
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Hacking C, Deng F, Harvey J, Traumatic aortic injury. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 07 Dec 2023) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-55856
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19 Dec 2019, Francis Deng ◉
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Systems:
Synonyms:
- Blunt traumatic aortic injury
- TAI
- BTAI
Traumatic aortic injury (TAI) is most often caused by blunt trauma (referred to as BTAI) and is best described in terms of injury location, type and severity:
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- Stab wound (overview)
- Abdominal aortic injury
- Aortic intramural haematoma
- Blunt cardiac injury
- RANZCR key conditions assessment
- Assessment of cardiomediastinal contours on chest x-ray (approach)
- Aortic transection
- Aortic knob
- Minimal aortic injury
- Medical abbreviations and acronyms (T)
- Aortic pseudoaneurysm
- Traumatic aortic injury in the exam
- Thoracic aortic injury
Cases:
- Traumatic aortic injury with endovascular repair
- Post-traumatic aortic pseudoaneurysm
- Blunt thoracic aortic injury
- Traumatic aortic injury with repair
- Gunshot thorax
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Aortic transection with multi-organ infarcts and bilateral popliteal artery occlusions
- Traumatic aortic transection
- Complex polytrauma with diaphragmatic rupture, aortic pseudoaneurysm, solid organ injury
- Multi-trauma with traumatic aortic injury, diaphragmatic rupture and small bowel injury
- Traumatic aortic injury and bowel injury
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- acute aortic syndrome
- aortic aneurysms
- inflammatory
- congenital
- aortic coarctation
- aortic pseudocoarctation
- cervical aortic arch
- interrupted aortic arch
- transposition of the great arteries
- variant anatomy of the aortic arch
- traumatic aortic injury
- miscellaneous
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