The Use of Extracorporeal Circulation to Facilitate the Resection of a Large Retroperitoneal Sarcoma With Major Vessel Involvement: A Single-Center Review of 20 Cases.

Objective: To describe the introduction of extracorporeal corporeal oxygenation (ECMO) to facilitate the surgical resection of large retroperitoneal sarcomas involving major vessels and to report preliminary outcomes.

Design: A case series.

Setting: At a tertiary university hospital and state sarcoma center.

Intimal windsock following type A aortic dissection: An intussusception of severe implications.

Background: A patient has presented with type A aortic dissection and computed tomography aortogram revealed proximal and distal aorta intimointimal intussusception.

Material & Methods: The patient has undergone successful aortic root replacement surgery and on the way to his recovery, he developed inferolateral myocardial infarction with the troponin I leak.

Results: The coronary angiogram showed a small contrast leak around the left button with no luminal compromise.