Contemporary spinal cord protection during thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic surgery and endovascular aortic repair: a position paper of the vascular domain of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery†

D. Etz, Christian; Weigang, Ernst; Hartert, Marc; Lönn, Lars; A. Mestres, Carlos; Di Bartolomeo, Roberto; Bachet, Jean; Carrel, Thierry; Grabenwöger, Martin; Schepens, Marc; Czerny, Martin

doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezv142

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Contemporary spinal cord protection during thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic surgery and endovascular aortic repair: a position paper of the vascular domain of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery†

Published in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery • May 19, 2015

Authors:

Christian D. Etz

Ernst Weigang

Marc Hartert

Abstract

Ischaemic spinal cord injury (SCI) remains the Achilles heel of open and endovascular descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal repair. Neurological outcomes have improved coincidentially with the introduction of neuroprotective measures. However, SCI (paraplegia and paraparesis) remains the most dev...

Subject

Medicine

Paraplegia

Spinal cord

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