Surgical Treatment of Aneurysms of the Aortic Arch
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Vol. 15 (3) , 279-281
- https://doi.org/10.3109/14017438109100587
Abstract
A new approach to the challenge of surgical treatment of aneurysms of the aortic arch is described. Former techniques have been dependent on separate cannulation of the cerebral arteries, but induction of deep total body hypothermia to 15°C and circulatory arrest is considered to give sufficient time for resection of the aneurysms and completion of the anastomoses. This is made possible by excising the aneurysms in such a way that the orifices of the three arch vessels are trimmed to leave a small cuff of tissue around the vessels, thereby reducing the number of anastomoses to three. The successful treatment of three patients with this method, is reported.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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