Table 2

Alive on arrival at the hospital cases showing aortic injury by blunt trauma

Age/sex	Mechanism of injury	Types of Ao injury	AAST-OIS grade20	Other organ injuries	Treatment	Prognosis
74M**	Fall from stairs, hit his chest 3 weeks before	Contained rupture of descending Ao	IV	None	Transferred to tertiary TC	Unknown
39M	Fall from 5 feet	Perforated descending Ao	IV	Open fracture of LE	Thoracotomy	Died on the same day
79M	Fall from stairs, 15 steps	Stanford B dissection	IV	Cervical Fx	BP control	D/c on 35th day
62F	Pedestrian hit by a taxi	Stanford A dissection	V	Brain, pelvis, Fx of LEs	Total arch replacement on day 8	D/c on 116th day
56M	Fall from standing, chest pain after 3 hours	Stanford A dissection	V	None	Ascending Ao replacement on day 1	D/c on 116th day
72M††	Fall from 17 feet	Stanford A dissection	V	Spine Fxs	BP control	D/c on day 38
86M	Struck by a car	Stanford B dissection	IV	Brain, lung, pelvis	BP control	D/c on day 38
72M	Fall	Stanford B dissection	IV	None	BP control	Transferred

* online supplementary figure 2
† online supplementary figure 1
AAST-OIS, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma–Organ Injury Scale; Ao, aorta/aortic; BP, blood pressure; D/c, discharge; Fx, fracture; LE, lower extremity; TC, trauma center.