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Strategies to manage paraplegia risk after endovascular stent repair of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms.

A. Cheung,A. Pochettino,6 Authors,J. Bavaria

2005 · DOI: 10.1016/J.ATHORACSUR.2005.04.027
Annals of Thoracic Surgery · 260 Citations

TLDR

Early detection and intervention to augment spinal cord perfusion pressure was effective for decreasing the magnitude of injury or preventing permanent paraplegia from spinal cord ischemia after endovascular stent repair of descending thoracic aortic aneurysm.