[Surgical treatment of the aortic arch aneurysm. Immediate results].

There was performed the retrospective analysis of 23 consecutive patients, to whom beside the ascending aorta aneurysm correction the aorta arch prosthesis was done in conditions of deep hypothermia, the blood circulation arrest with retrograde cerebral perfusion via vena cava superior. For an acute layering and aneurysm of aorta with pericardium tamponade or hemothorax occurrence 16 (69.6%) of patients were operated on in emergency. Hospital mortality had constituted 21.7%, including after an urgent operation performance--25% and elective surgery--14.3%.