title: Another blood supply to Adamkiewicz's artery.
abstract: A 76-year-old man underwent endovascular stent-grafting therapy for chronic aortic dissection. The preoperative multi detector row helical computed tomography (CT) revealed that Adamkiewicz's artery originated from the level of thoracic 9 intercostal artery. Intraoperative monitoring of motor evoked potentials showed no reduction of amplitude in the anterior tibialis muscle after deployment retrievable stent-graft. Postoperative CT showed that stent-graft blocked the ostium of intercostal arteries including Adamkiewicz's artery. On the other hand, the distal portion of the Adamkiewicz's artery was clearly enhanced. Our result showed that there is a collateral network supplying to Adamkiewicz's artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Junetsu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Akasaka
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takase
authors.forename: Kiichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tabayashi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D001158:Arteries / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D003097:Collateral Circulation / Q000502:physiology*; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply*; D015607:Stents; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed