title: Surgical management of renal cell carcinoma with extensive intracaval involvement using a venous bypass system suitable for rapid conversion to total cardiopulmonary bypass.
abstract: Renal cell carcinoma involves the vena cava in approximately 4% of the patients. Presently surgical extirpation is the only form of therapy that can result in cure. Recently management of extensive vena caval involvement has involved the use of cardiopulmonary bypass with circulatory arrest and hypothermia. We describe a technique using a venous bypass pump system (femoral vein to right atrium) for resection of renal cell carcinoma with suprahepatic vena caval extension (type II), which avoids the risks and complications of cardiac arrest and hypothermia but allows for rapid conversion to total cardiopulmonary bypass should the intraoperative need arise.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, Vascular and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, North Carolina.
authors.forename: E O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Janosko
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Spence
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Hodges
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Lust
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care / Q000295:instrumentation; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior