Author(s)

Andrea Perrotti¹, Abdoulaye Kanté^2*, Bréhima Coulibaly², Mamadou Almamy Keita², Drissa Traoré², Mamadou Diakité³, Mariam Daou⁴, Bakary Keita⁵, Birama Togola², Nouhoum Ongoïba², Harrison Haight¹, Anne Sophie Lacagne¹, Julie Ritter¹, Anne Claire Mogenet¹, Enrica Dorigo¹, Camille Durst¹, Djamel Kaili¹, François Clement¹, Sidney Chocron¹

¹Service of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.
²General Surgery Department, CHU Point G, Bamako, Mali.
³Cardiology Department of the CHU of the Point G, Faculty of Medicine and Odontostomatology of Bamako, Bamako, Mali.
⁴Service of Neurology, Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital, Bamako, Mali.
⁵Anesthesia Service and Resuscitation Department, CHU Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mal.

The traumatic break of the ascending aorta is rare. We bring report the case of a 40-year-old man, a victim of accident of the public highway having caused a break of the posterior face of the ascending aorta. The explorations scanno graphique and per operating highlighted this break. The treatment consisted of an edge-to-edge direct suture of the ascending aorta.

Traumatic Break, Ascending Aorta, Accident of the Public Highway

Perrotti, A. , Kanté, A. , Coulibaly, B. , Keita, M. , Traoré, D. , Diakité, M. , Daou, M. , Keita, B. , Togola, B. , Ongoïba, N. , Haight, H. , Lacagne, A. , Ritter, J. , Mogenet, A. , Dorigo, E. , Durst, C. , Kaili, D. , Clement, F. and Chocron, S. (2018) Traumatic Break of the Ascending Aorta: About a Case. Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery, 8, 63-67. doi: 10.4236/ojts.2018.84011.