Paraplegia after extensive thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Does critical spinal cord ischemia occur postoperatively?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 324-330

  Etz, Christian D ^a,b   Luehr, Maximilian ^a   Kari, Fabian A ^a   Bodian, Carol A ^a   Smego, Douglas ^a   Plestis, Konstadinos A ^a   Griepp, Randall B ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VENOUS PRESSURE;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPARESIS; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 38649119140     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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