Suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula.
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.
Fujimoto
Yoshifumi
Y
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-Ku, Shizuoka, 420-8660, Japan. yoshi-sleepingcat@crest.ocn.ne.jp
Hirose
Keiichi
K
Ota
Noritaka
N
Murata
Masaya
M
Ide
Yujiro
Y
Tosaka
Yuko
Y
Tachi
Maiko
M
Sakamoto
Kisaburo
K
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