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Inadvertent flow alterations in the parent artery during microsurgical clipping might produce postoperative ischemic complications. Intraoperative recognition of such alterations and its correction might improve operative outcomes in these patients. We present the case of a thirty-five-year-old male with an incidental small left anterior choroidal aneurysm. Microsurgical clipping induced an external compression of the anterior choroidal artery against the posterior clinoidal process which was identified in situ through surgical exploration and the loss of arterial doppler signal in the vessel. After failed attempts at clip repositioning, a posterior clinoidectomy was performed to decompress the artery. This resulted in arterial flow recovery. The aneurysm was successfully treated, and a severe ischemic complication was likely avoided. This intraoperative phenomenon has not yet been described in the literature.
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Objetivo: analizar en forma prospectiva la viabilidad de una neurorrafia mediante técnicas microquirúrgicas, en un modelo experimental con diferentes grados crecientes de pérdida de tejido nervioso periférico. Introducción: Para reparar un nervio periférico que tiene pérdida de tejido, clásicamente este defecto se suple por un injerto autólogo. Sin embargo, se produce comorbilidad en el sitio dador y sus resultados siempre son inferiores a la sutura directa sin tensión. Existe una opción para evitar el uso de injertos cuando el defecto es escaso, colocando puntos epineurales distales (PED) a la neurorrafia, eliminando así la tensión en dicha unión. Materiales y métodos: Se utilizaron 40 ratas Wistar, dividiéndose aleatoriamente en 4 grupos. Bajo anestesia general se abordó al nervio ciático y se efectuó sección trasversal y sutura simple con nylon 10.0 al grupo A (control). Se realizó exéresis de 2 mm de nervio al grupo B, de 4 mm al grupo C y de 6 mm al grupo D; para luego realizar PED. Se realizaron determinaciones de índice de función ciático (análisis de las huellas), velocidad de conducción (electrofisiología) e índice de regeneración (histopatología) para evaluar la viabilidad de la neurorrafia. Se confrontaron los diferentes grupos planteados con ANOVA, considerando significativo un valor de p < 0.05. Conclusiones:La neurorrafia simple no evidencia diferencias estadísticamente significativas con la reparación de 2mm de pérdida de tejido mediante PED en la rata Wistar.
Objective: To analyze, in a prospective way, the viability of a neurorraphy by a microsurgical technique, in an experimental model with different increasing grades of peripheral nerve tissue loss.Introduction: In order to repair a peripheral nerve that has experienced some grade of substance loss, autologous grafts have been used by most neurosurgeons. However, comorbidities in the donor site are produced, and the results obtained are always inferior compared to the ones achieved by using a direct suture without tension. There is an option to avoid using grafts when the defect is scarce, which is the confection of distal epineural sutures (DES) to the neurorraphy, discarding any tension in this junction site.Materials and methods: We have used 40 Wistar rats, randomly separated into 4 groups. In Group A, under complete anesthesia, the sciatic nerve was dissected and transversely sectioned and then sutured with a 10.0 nylon suture. Furthermore we made a 2 mm extirpation in Group B, a 4 mm one in Group C and a 6 mm one in Group C, in order to perform a DES technique. Our group also ran a sciatic nerve function test (footprint analysis), conduction speed (by electrophysiology), and even determined the nerve regeneration index (histopathology) to estimate the viability of the neurorraphy. The different groups were confronted with ANOVA, considering a value of p<0.05 as statistically significative.Conclusions: Simple neurorraphy exposed no statistically significative differences in comparison to the reparation of a 2 mm tissue loss with DES technique, in the Wistar rat model.
