Citation

Fox S, Pierce WS, Waldhausen JA. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 1979; 77(4): 622-625.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

423596

Abstract

Traumatic aortic rupture is a common occurrence associated with 16 percent of deaths from automobile accidents. Through a review of current literature and two recent cases from The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, we have attempted to elucidate a common physical finding, acute hypertension associated with blunt chest trauma, and prove its significance as a diagnostic clue to traumatic rupture of the aorta. New laboratory findings of an aortic sympathetic reflex stimulated by stretching the aortic wall in the area of the isthmus provides a physiological explanation for the cause of hypertension after aortic trauma.

Language: en