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Bad Aorta

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Abstract

As its outcomes improve, cardiac surgery has been performed on more and more cases which were previously considered to be difficult to deal with. However, there are still a number of problems to be solved regarding surgery on patients with severe sclerotic lesions in the ascending aorta, which we collectively call “bad aorta”. Concerning a preoperative assessment of the ascending aorta, our report revealed no relationship between the severity of calcification detected with a preoperative non-enhanced CT and the aortic lesion found during the surgery. Meanwhile, an intraoperative epiaortic ultrasound enables us to make high-quality evaluations of the aorta without imposing much burden on the patient. This modality may be essential for cardiac surgery. As for surgical management for bad aorta, quite a few methods have been reported to this point, but the overall operative mortality rate and cerebrovascular accident rate are relatively high, at a little <10 %, respectively. With the recent cross-clamping method under short-term total circulatory arrest (TCA), however, the results are much better; these rates total around 5 %. Further improvement is expected in the outcome of cardiac surgery on bad aorta cases by establishing a modality to evaluate sclerotic lesions in the ascending aorta with epiaortic ultrasound and by selecting a proper procedure for each case.

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Titel: Bad Aorta
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2014
Erschienen in: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery / Ausgabe 5/2014
Print ISSN: 1863-6705
Elektronische ISSN: 1863-6713
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-014-0388-8

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