Spinal cord protection during thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair

Surgery Today

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Tabayashi, Koichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multimodality approach; Spinal cord injury; Thoracoabdominal aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; COCAINE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEFEROXAMINE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NALOXONE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PAPAVERINE; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TETRACAINE;

ABDOMEN; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ARTERY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GREAT RADICULAR ARTERY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTERCOSTAL ARTERY; LUMBAR ARTERY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERFUSION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; SHUNTING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORAX; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 16644369377     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2889-z     Document Type: Review

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