Spontaneous Non-traumatic Rupture of a Non-aneurysmatic Infrarenal Abdominal Aorta in a 10-Year Old Girl without Histological Evidence of Connective Tissue or Autoimmune Disease: A Case Report

Spontaneous non-traumatic rupture of a non-aneurysmatic infrarenal abdominal aorta is an extremely rare condition, which to our knowledge, has only been described in adults. Rupture is usually associated with some form of connective tissue or autoimmune disease, which causes weakness of the aortic tunica media. This report is the first to present a case of a non-traumatic rupture of a non-aneurysmatic abdominal aorta in a 10-year old girl. Histological investigation of microscopic sections of the ruptured aorta, molecular biological, and DNA mutation analyses, did not demonstrate any abnormalities.

Keywords: Abdominal aorta, Spontaneous rupture, Connective tissue disease, Autoimmune disease, Child