Dissection of Femoral Artery Due To Blunt Trauma: Case Report

Intimal damage, contusion, laceration, dissection, pseudoaneursym and arteriovenous fistula may occur in arterial system after blunt trauma. Twenty years old male patient was admitted to the emergency service following room because of a traffic accident. Femoral artery dissection was detected in patient after blunt trauma. Saphenous vein graft interposition to the femoral artery is applied at the portion before the hunter s channel. Microembolic spaces are detected in the basal ganglia and left hemisphere on magnetic resonance inspection of the patient developing unconsciousness at the tenth postoperative hour. Consciousness was opened in clinical follow up. The patient with palpable peripheral pulses was transferred to Neurology Clinic with partial neurological deficit. As a result, dissection of the femoral artery can be rarely seen due to blunt trauma. Although there was early signs of ischemia in our patient, it had not forgotten that the findings of ischemia were occurred in later periods. In this letter, we aimed to introduce a case of dissection on the femoral artery caused by blunt trauma and conducing lower extremity ischemia. [Cukurova Med J 2012; 37(2.000): 116-120]