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ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA FOLLOWING LUMBAR DISK SURGERY—THE USE OF TOTAL CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS DURING REPAIR
Author(s) -
Fletcher J. P.,
Klineberg P. L.,
Hawker F. H.,
Soni N.,
Woods W. P. D.,
Pearson I. Y.,
Nunn G. R.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1986.tb04518.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiopulmonary bypass , lumbar , surgery , fistula , complication , arteriovenous fistula , anesthesia
Arteriovenous fistula is a rare complication of lumbar disk surgery and there is often a delay in diagnosis. A patient who developed multi‐system failure associated with an aortocaval fistula, which occured following a lumbar disk operation, is presented in this study. Surgical repair was facilitated by the use of total cardiopulmonary bypass which enabled a degree of safety and control that would have been difficult to obtain with standard methods.