Cardioplegic cardiac arrest in aortic surgery.
Cardioplegia according to Bretschneider is able to protect the myocardium during long periods of cardiac arrest and a quiet relaxed heart has in many cases of congenital heart disease been of great surgical advantage. In the last 100 consecutive aortic valve replacements in cardioplegic arrest we have lost 6 patients and none of the deaths seems to be related to the method. In our hands it has been superior to coronary perfusion.
D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery*; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D004106:Dilatation; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D005260:Female; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D013997:Time Factors