[A case of spinal hemorrhage associated with abdominal aortic coarctation].

We report a 59-year-old male with abdominal aortic coarctation presented as paraplegia due to spinal hemorrhage caused by the rupture of abnormally dilated spinal artery. In coarctation of aorta, coarctation is usually located in the aortic isthmus which could be the cause of cervical and upper thoracic myelopathy. However, there has been no report of abdominal aortic coarctation with hemorrhagic transverse myelopathy. In this case hemorrhage occurred after surgical treatment and prescribed warfarin may have exaggerated the outcome.