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Permissive Hypertension and Collateral Revascularization May Allow Avoidance of Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage in Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair

Monday, November 23, 2020

Submitted by

Emily Robinson

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.101

Author(s)

E. Hope Weissler, MD, Soraya L. Voigt, MD, Vignesh Raman, MD, Oliver Jawitz, MD, Julie Doberne, MD, PhD, Jatin Anand, MD, Ryan Plichta, MD, Jeffrey G. Gaca, MD, Richard L. McCann, MD, and G. Chad Hughes, MD

This study evaluated preoperative cerebrospinal fluid drainage (CSFD) In patients undergoing isolated descending TEVAR with or without arch involvement (+/− arch TEVAR).