TY - JOUR
AR - RDI-2020-2-103
TI - Acute Aortic Occlusion with Acute Onset of Paraplegia and Severe Hyposthenia
AU - Daniela , Viola
AU - Fabio , Spinetti
AU - Giuseppe , Mercogliano
AU - Giuseppe , Sarti
AU - Ines , Marano
AU - MariaVittoria , Guerra
AU - Marina , Lugarà
AU - Stefania, Tamburrini
AU - Valeria , Fiorini
JO - Radiology and Medical Diagnostic Imaging
PY - 2020
DA - Fri 15, May 2020
SN - 2613-7836
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.RDI.2020.02.03
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/acute-aortic-occlusion-with-acute-onset-of-paraplegia-and-severe-hyposthenia_RDI-2020-2-103 
KW - Arterial occlusive disease, thrombosis, aortic occlusion, acute paraplegia, hyposthenia
AB - A 75-years-old man presented at our ED with acute onset of paraplegia and severe bilateral lower limb
hyposthenia. The patient ‘s neurological assessment was negative except for lower limbs positive
Mingazzini test. CT angiography detected a complete lack of opacification of the abdominal aorta
immediately below the emergency of the inferior mesenteric artery, caused by a coarse thrombus in the left
ventricle. We present a case of acute aortic and lumbar arteries thrombosis with paraplegia and no clear
symptoms of acute limb ischemia, in which the motor deficit in the lower extremities was explained by
anterior spinal cord syndrome secondary to acute occlusion of lumbar arteries.