[Surgical treatment of a patient with a ruptured Crawford type III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie bol'nogo s razryvom torakoabdominal'noi anevrizmy III tipa po E.S. Crawford.

Described herein is a clinical case report regarding surgical treatment of a patient presenting with a ruptured Crawford type III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. The patient was subjected to prosthetic repair of the thoracoabdominal aorta by the Coselli technique, as well as reduction of the aneurysmal sac in the thoracic and abdominal portions according to the authors' technique. The operation was carried out with neither connecting the patient to a heart-lung machine nor use of pharmacological protection of the visceral organs. The sutures were removed on postoperative day 12 and the patient was discharged from hospital in a satisfactory condition.

Treatment of vertebrobasilar insufficiency due to stenosis and aneurysm of the vertebral artery. / Lechenie vertebral'no-baziliarnoi nedostatochnosti, obuslovlennoi stenozom i anevrizmoi pozvonochnoi arterii.

A dissecting aneurysm of the vertebral artery in the extracranial portion is a rare pathology. It may either have a symptom-free course or induce a clinical picture of vertebrobasilar insufficiency. To the main methods of surgical treatment belong endovascular techniques and resection of an aneurysm with shunting of the V3 segment of the vertebral artery. Presented in the article is a clinical case report regarding successful surgical management of a dissecting aneurysm of the extracranial portion in a young woman presenting with a clinical course of vertebrobasilar insufficiency and treated by means of ligation of the vertebral artery in the V1 segment and autovenous shunting from the external carotid artery to the V3 segment of the vertebral artery.