[Late paraparesis as a postoperative complication in a patient undergoing the repair of a double aortic aneurysm]. / Paraparesia tardía como complicación postoperatoria en paciente sometido a reparación de doble aneurisma aórtico.

We report a case of a fifty-seven (57)-years old man undergoing elective surgery of a thoracoabdominal and aortoiliac aneurysm in a single surgical time. The patients is operated undergoing general anesthetic combined with thoracic epidural blockade, and it was done two aortic cross-clamping: one to five cm of the aortic arch and the other to the infrarenal level. The most important intraoperative complications were during the thoracic aortic cross-clamping and the most important postoperative complication was related 48 hours later, to paraparesis after a hypotension episode what improved with rehabilitation treatment.