Rapid ventricular pacing to lower blood pressure during endograft deployment in the thoracic aorta.
Controlled hypotension is critical to the accurate deployment of aortic endografts and safe balloon post-dilation. We describe the use of rapid ventricular pacing during 15 aortic stenting procedures. An immediate and sustained reduction in both phasic and mean blood pressure was achieved in all patients. This procedure has advantages over pharmacologic or other methods of blood pressure reduction.
Pornratanarangsi
Suwatchai
S
Green Lane Cardiovascular Unit, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
Webster
Mark W I
MW
Alison
Peter
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Nand
Parma
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents