Is distal aortic perfusion in traumatic thoracic aortic injuries necessary to avoid paraplegic postoperative outcomes?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-120

  Whitson, Bryan A ^a   Nath, Dilip S ^b   Knudtson, Joshua R ^a   McGonigal, Michael D ^c   Shumway, Sara J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcomes; Survival; Thoracic; Traumatic aortic injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; CLAMP AND SEW TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; DESCENDING AORTA; DISTAL AORTIC PERFUSION; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD INJURY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATING ROOM; PARAPLEGIA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PARAPLEGIA; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 38149033642     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3180413e13     Document Type: Article

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