@article{ref1,
title="Acute hypertension: its significance in traumatic aortic rupture",
journal="Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery",
year="1979",
author="Fox, S. and Pierce, W. S. and Waldhausen, J. A.",
volume="77",
number="4",
pages="622-625",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-5223",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}