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CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS. Following injury to the thorax, there are usually no symptoms or signs to indicate that an aortic injury has occurred. Dyspnea and chest pain are usually present, but these commonly result from the almost universally present rib fractures and do not aid in recognizing rupture of the aorta. A hemothorax, with varying degrees of shock, is also frequent, but again such findings frequently arise from rib fractures and pulmonary lacerations which do not involve the aorta. A murmur has been present in only a few patients. Rarely, signs of acute obstruction of the aorta, apparently from prolapse of a segment of intima with obstruction of the lumen, have occurred, with weak or absent femoral pulses and even acute paraplegia.ICD-10 Training makes you spend more time with patients and increase the quality of the care.