Venopulmonary artery extracorporeal lung assist in repair of traumatic aortic injury via left thoracotomy.
J Card Surg
; 35(12): 3575-3577, 2020 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
An urgent surgery was performed for a 28-year-old man who sustained a traumatic descending thoracic aortic injury in an automobile collision. Severe respiratory failure was encountered during surgery, which did not allow for single-lung ventilation for adequate exposure of the descending aorta. We used venopulmonary artery extracorporeal lung assist by main pulmonary artery cannulation with concurrent distal aortic perfusion using a single centrifugal pump. Cannulating the easily accessible main pulmonary artery for venopulmonary artery extracorporeal lung assist is a safe and feasible technique in patients complicated with profound respiratory failure undergoing aortic surgery via left thoracotomy.
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01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Enfermedades de la Aorta
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Aneurisma de la Aorta Torácica
Límite:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Card Surg
Asunto de la revista:
CARDIOLOGIA
Año:
2020
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Japón