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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 87, 788-789, Copyright © 1984 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Paraplegia following percutaneous insertion of an intra-aortic balloon

DM Rose, IJ Jacobowitz, AJ Acinapura and JN Cunningham Jr

Paraplegia following insertion of an intra-aortic balloon is an extremely rare and unusual complication with only one previous report in the literature. We recently encountered this problem in a man with severe coronary disease and unstable angina. The etiology of this complication, although never established in our patient, was most likely a critical occlusion of a spinal cord artery as a result of either a small dissection or an arterial embolus.

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