A 55-year-old woman was transported to the hospital by ambulance after jumping in a suicide attempt. She was intubated immediately because of breathing difficulty with a flail chest. Computed tomography showed pulmonary contusion, multiple left rib (3th to 8th) fractures, and injury to the ascending thoracic aorta (Figure 1). We decided to delay aortic surgery until she recovered consciousness because of suicide-related injury. She underwent ascending aortic replacement on the 11th post-trauma day.
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