Hemodynamic Patterns of Spinal Cord Perfusion in Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair

Overview

Journal Aorta (Stamford)

Publisher Thieme

Date 2021 Oct 7

PMID 34619803

Authors

Giuseppe Rescigno

Carlo Banfi

Claudio Rossella

Stefano Nazari

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Abstract

Paraplegia in aortic surgery is due to its impact on spinal cord perfusion whose hemodynamic patterns (SCPHP) are not clearly defined. Detailed morphological analysis of vascular network and collateral network modifications within Monro-Kellie postulate due to the fixed theca confines was performed to identify SCPHP. SCPHP may begin with intraspinal "backflow" (I-BF), that is, hemorrhage from anterior and posterior spinal arteries, backward via the connected anterior and posterior radicular medullary arteries, through the increasing diameter and decreasing resistance of segmental arteries (SAs), off their aortic orifices outside vascular network at 0 operative field pressure. The I-BF blood bypasses both intra- and extraspinal capillary networks and causes depressurization (0 diastolic pressure) and full ischemia of dependent spinal cord. When the occlusion of those SAs orifices arrests I-BF, the hemodynamic pattern of intraspinal "steal" (I-S) may take place. The formerly I-BF blood, in fact, is now variably shared between the fraction maintained in its physiological intraspinal network and that keeping flowing as I-S through the extraspinal capillary network. I-S is, however, counteracted by the extraspinal "steal" from the connected mammary/paraspinous-independent extraspinal feeders, all physically competing for the same room left by the missed physiological SA direct aortic blood inflow. Steal phenomenon evolves within the 120-hour time frame of CNm, whose intraspinal anatomical changes may offer the physical basis within the Monro-Kelly postulate, respectively of the intraoperative and postoperative paraplegia. The current procedures could not prevent the unphysiological SCPHP but awareness of details of their various features may offer the basis for improvements tailored, to the adopted intra- and postoperative procedures.

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