title: Suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula.
abstract: We report preventive innominate artery division or ligation through a suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula (TIF) with recurrent airway oozing in patients with severe neuromuscular disease. Our approach is less invasive and a favorable procedure as preventive surgery for impending TIF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-Ku, Shizuoka, 420-8660, Japan. yoshi-sleepingcat@crest.ocn.ne.jp
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: Keiichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: Noritaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: Yujiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tosaka
authors.forename: Maiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tachi
authors.forename: Kisaburo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016122:Brachiocephalic Trunk / Q000601:surgery*; D005402:Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases; D013249:Sternum; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000601:surgery; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016157:Vascular Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000601:surgery