Strategies for spinal cord protection during descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic surgery: Up-to-date experimental and clinical results -- a review

MeSH terms

• Angiography
• Animals
• Aorta / surgery*
• Evoked Potentials
• Humans
• Hypothermia, Induced
• Lumbar Vertebrae / blood supply
• Monitoring, Intraoperative
• Neuroprotective Agents / therapeutic use
• Paraplegia / prevention & control
• Perfusion / methods
• Perioperative Care
• Postoperative Complications / prevention & control*
• Spinal Cord / blood supply
• Spinal Cord / physiology
• Spinal Cord Ischemia / prevention & control*
• Vascular Surgical Procedures / methods*