Open Thoracoabdominal Repair: Surgery Series (2/16/21) 25:37-27:14 We use left heart bypass, so what you see here is drainage from the heart into a centrifugal pump, which then leads blood back into the lower body that allows us to place c…

Open Thoracoabdominal Repair: Surgery Series (2/16/21) 24:26-25:37 We use CSF drainage to reduce the instance of paraplegia. If you look at the Cochrane review from a few years ago all three of the randomized clinical trials were done by o…

Open Thoracoabdominal Repair: Surgery Series (2/16/21) 22:49-24:25 So let's talk about thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Replacing that much of the aorta places a great deal of the body at risk: spinal cord, the kidneys, the bowel, …

Open Thoracoabdominal Repair: Surgery Series (2/16/21) 20:56-22:48 Most of patients with Marfan syndrome, thoracoabdominal aneurysm, chronic aortic dissection when it comes to the thoracoabdominal aorta, most of them have Type II thoracoab…

Open Thoracoabdominal Repair: Surgery Series (2/16/21) 18:54-20:55 Most patients with Marfan syndrome undergoing actually thoracoabdominal repair have usually had a prior replacement of the aortic root, not always but the majority of them …

Open Thoracoabdominal Repair: Surgery Series (2/16/21) 16:49-18:54 Aortic dissection comes in a variety of different classifications. There's two classifications. There we go by one is the DeBakey classification, which my particular part o…