Open AccessOpen surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm: Proximal aortic control by endoaortic balloon - A novel approach
Author(s) -
Balakrishnan Sadasivam,
Palaniappan Manickam,
Rajani Singh,
Chandrasekar Padmanabhan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9784.97981
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal aortic aneurysm , surgery , aneurysm , balloon , aortic aneurysm , open surgery , radiology
Patients with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm with unfavorable anatomy for endovascular aneurysm repair have to undergo open surgical repair. Open surgery has its own morbidity in terms of proximal clamping and declamping, bleeding and prolonged hospital stay and mortality. We present two such patients with juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm who underwent open surgical repair. The proximal aortic control during open surgical repair of the aneurysm was achieved by endoaortic balloon occlusion technique.