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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1980; 28(3): 211-212
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1022079
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Tubular Hypoplasia of the Descending Thoracic Aorta

Surgical Treatment with a PTFE Bypass Graft under Moderate Total Body HypothermiaV. Srinivasan1 , A. N. Lewin1 , L. Levinsky1 , B. Idbeis2 , R. L. Gingell3 , S. Subramanian4
  • Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New York, USA
  • 1Fellow, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,
  • 2Resident, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,
  • 3Department of Cardiology,
  • 4Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor of Surgery, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
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1980

Publication Date:
19 March 2008 (online)

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Summary

An 8 1/2-year-old child presenting with hypertension was noted to have tubular hypoplasia of the descending thoracic aorta without collateral circulation on angiography. Surgical management consisted of bypassing the hypoplastic segment (10 cm) using a 10 mm PTFE graft under total body hypothermia to minimize spinal complications. The patient had an uneventful recovery with normalization of blood pressures postoperatively.

Key words

Hypoplasia - Collaterals - Paraplegia - Shunt