Tamer Owais Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Coronary myocardial protection, Ischaemia
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kasr El Aini Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kasr El Aini Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt Surgical revascularization of CAD patients having diffusely-diseased LAD is a difficult surgical problem. Some centers prefer long direct LIMA-to-LAD grafting; others perform LIMA grafts to on lay SVG patch. Favoring either technique depends on multiple factors and is still questionable.
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Author(s): Tamer Owais , Ashraf Fawzy , Waled Saad , Mahmoud Salah El Din , Farouk AL Alfy , Jürgen Fuchs , Martin Breuer and Thomas Kuntze
Background: Despite the utmost development and arousal of new techniques as TEVAR in the management of lethal aortic aneurysms and dissecting aortic aneurysms using, we still need to optimize the results through better spinal cord protection for the possible intercostal arteries especially the Adamqiewckz artery. Here we are focusing on the impact of spinal cord protection on the outcome in cases of TEVAR.
Materials and methods: Between May 2007 and May 2017; in Saudi German Hospital (SGH); Madina Munawarah, KSA and central clinic in Bad Berka; Germany. 41 TEVAR procedures were performed. Medtronic Valiant device with the Captiva delivery system was recently used to manage variety of cases of aortic dissection (6 trauma cases, 27 cases of hypertension i... view moreĀ»