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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 94, 271-274, Copyright © 1987 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Monitoring of somatosensory evoked potentials during surgical procedures on the thoracoabdominal aorta. III. Intraoperative identification of vessels critical to spinal cord blood supply

JC Laschinger, JN Cunningham Jr, FG Baumann, MM Cooper, KH Krieger and FC Spencer

Somatosensory evoked potentials were used to locate intercostal arteries critical to spinal cord blood flow in nine dogs. To mimic a clinical situation, the proximal descending thoracic aorta (left subclavian artery to T7) was excluded with cross-clamps, and partial pulsatile left atrial-femoral artery bypass was instituted to maintain distal aortic pressure at 100 mm Hg. Progressively lower aortic segments were excluded (T7-10, T10-L1, L1-3, L3-6, L6-7) until loss of somatosensory evolved potentials occurred. Spinal cord blood flow measurements at the time of evoked potential loss revealed significant ischemia (p less than 0.02 versus baseline) in the excluded segment in seven animals but normal spinal cord blood flow in the remainder of the cord. Upon reperfusion, significant reactive hyperemia (p less than 0.02) was noted only in previously ischemic cord segments. Two animals exhibited no change in somatosensory evoked potentials or spinal cord blood flow despite exclusion of the entire thoracoabdominal aorta, presumably as a result of spinal collaterals. Loss of somatosensory evoked potentials despite adequate distal perfusion indicates that critical intercostal vessels have been excluded from systemic and bypass circulations. Use of evoked potential measurements in both experimental and clinical situations provides a means for assessing adequacy of spinal cord blood flow during cross-clamping and can alert the surgeon to the need for reimplantation of critical intercostal arteries during surgical resection of the thoracoabdominal aorta.

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