[First experience with monitoring somatosensory and motor evoked potential during operations on the thoracic and thoracoabdominal portions of the aorta].

Specialists in Russia have recently gained vast experience in operations on the thoracic and thoracoabdominal portion of the aorta; however, studying evoked potentials for preventing lesions of the spinal marrow have not been studied in any clinic. The authors report herein their first experience in Russia in studying the function of the marrow during operations on the aorta followed by detailed description of the technique of registering evoked potentials. From June 2010 to January 2011, specialists of the Arterial Pathology Department of the A.

[Remote results of open interventions in treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms].

Analysed herein are the results of treating a total of 471 patients operated on at the Department of Surgical Treatment for Arterial Pathology of the Research Centre of Cardiovascular Surgery named after A. N. Bakulev under the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences for an aneurysm of the infrarenal portion of the abdominal aorta.

[Extra-anatomical bypass grafting from the ascending to the descending aorta combined with removal of the thoracic-aorta stent graft and a para-aortic abscess following endoscopic repair of the descending portion of the thoracic aorta].

The outcomes of reconstructive repair operations for aneurysms of the descending portion of the thoracic aorta typically appear to be relatively satisfactory. However, a certain cohort of patients presenting with the pathology concerned require repeated secondary interventions due to the development of false aneurysms in the area of the anastomosis and infection of the synthetic vascular stent graft, with the number of such patients steadily increasing with each year. The authors describe herein a clinical case report regarding successful treatment of a patient diagnosed with an infected pseudoaneurysm of the descending portion of the thoracic aorta after an endovascular repair operation.