Total aortic arch replacement for thoracic aneurysm involving an isolated left vertebral artery.
We conducted 4 total aortic arch replacements in patients with an isolated left vertebral artery. In all 4, surgery was done using 4-branched arch grafts with moderately hypothermic selective cerebral perfusion and systemic circulatory arrest. All reconstructed isolated left vertebral arteries anastomosed to the native left subclavian artery or to the graft branch for this artery showed good patency. None of our patients had cerebral complications and all were discharged in good condition.
Suzuki
Kazuchika
K
First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan.
Kazui
Teruhisa
T
Bashar
Abul Hasan Muhammad
AH
Yamashita
Katsushi
K
Terada
Hitoshi
H
Washiyama
Naoki
N
D000368:Aged; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000601:surgery*