AORTIC EMBOLECTOMY

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Abstract
The dramatic result which may follow successful aortic embolectomy in a patient otherwise doomed to almost certain early death is widely appreciated. Although definite advances have recently been made in the surgical treatment of lesions of the aorta, Keeley,1reporting in 1948, was able to find reports of only 21 cases of successfully treated aortic embolism. He recorded an additional case of his own. The purpose of this report is to record another successful embolectomy of the aorta, to consider briefly some of the unusual features of this case and to make another plea for the early recognition and operative treatment of this type of lesion. REPORT OF CASE History.— The patient, a white man aged 57, entered the Baptist Memorial Hospital at 12:30 p. m. on Dec. 2, 1948. He had been seated at his desk at 9 a. m. when he had suddenly felt both lower

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