Acute Type A Aortic Dissection with Cerebral Hypoperfusion

Abstract

A 79-year-old woman with left hemiplegia and loss of consciousness was transferred to a previous hospital. She underwent a CT-scan of the aorta and CT-perfusion of the brain and was diagnosed with Stanford type A acute aortic dissection complicated with cerebral malperfusion with narrowing of the right carotid artery region. She was transferred to our hospital and underwent emergency ascending aorta replacement. Preoperative CT perfusion findings predicted improvement of neurological symptoms after aortic repair, and she had no neurological complications postoperatively.