title: Aortic atresia and type B interrupted aortic arch: diagnosis by physiologic cerebral monitoring.
abstract: Physiologic cerebral monitoring has become an important part of our cardiovascular surgical unit. We recently encountered an unusual variant of aortic atresia that was first suggested by physiologic cerebral monitoring and required modification of our operative technique. We describe and discuss the anatomy, its translation into cerebral monitor findings, and how we modified our operative technique.
authors.affiliation: Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. djd@bcm.tmc.edu
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Dibardino
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Heinle
authors.forename: Dean A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Andropoulos
authors.forename: Caroline D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: David L S
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.forename: Charles D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Fraser
mesh_terms: D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D017585:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial