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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Mar 2012
Case ReportsRepair of a penetrating aortic arch injury using deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and retrograde cerebral perfusion.
- George Samanidis, Stergios Dimitriou, Athanasios Sakorafas, and Mazen Khoury.
- 2nd Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece. gsamanidis@yahoo.gr
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2012 Mar 1;14(3):356-8.
AbstractThe traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is a severe and life-threatening entity. The incidence of penetrating trauma to the aortic arch is not known, because most patients die of haemorrhage even before they receive adequate treatment. Clinical signs of such injuries include external or internal haemorrhage, bruit, distal pulse deficit, neurological deficit and shock. We present a 42-year old female with a penetrating aortic arch injury successfully repaired using deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and retrograde cerebral perfusion.
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