Late paraparesis as a postoperative complication in a patient undergoing the repair of a double aortic aneurysm
Bonome González, C.; Alvarez Refojo, F.; Fernández Carballal, F.; Rodríguez Alvarez, R.
Angiologia 45(6): 195-198
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3170 PMID: 8311343 Document Number: 421970
We report a case of a fifty-seven (57)-years old man undergoing elective surgery of a thoracoabdominal and aortoiliac aneurysm in a single surgical time. The patients is operated undergoing general anesthetic combined with thoracic epidural blockade, and it was done two aortic cross-clamping: one to five cm of the aortic arch and the other to the infrarenal level. The most important intraoperative complications were during the thoracic aortic cross-clamping and the most important postoperative complication was related 48 hours later, to paraparesis after a hypotension episode what improved with rehabilitation treatment.