The surgical treatment of vertebral-basilar aneurysms.
The surgical treatment of vertebral-basilar aneurysms.
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椎基底动脉瘤的手术治疗。
DOI:
10.1093/neurosurgery/16.cn_suppl_1.114
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发表时间:
1969
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通讯作者:
C. Drake
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作者:
C. Drake
During this period, there has been considerable change in surgical technique in our unit. Hypothermia was abandoned in 1962 because it did not solve the problems of early surgery. An operation within a few hours or days of a haemorrhage, even under moderate or deep hypothermia, usually ends in disaster, principally because of postoperative arterial spasm, which I still consider the most dreaded consequence of early surgery.On the other hand, cases operated upon late did'Nell for the I110St part, whether or not they were cooled. Late after bleeding, one can manipulate an aneurysm and its parent vessels extensively without producing spasm. We learned, consequently, to delay surgical treatment for 1 week. The magic number of 7 days was chosen since, in a study of our cases, the average t. ime from haemorrhage to an operation resulting in severe postoperative spaSI11 was 5 days, whereas to little or no spasm, 10 days (1). Seven days, then, was the happy medium and spasm after 7 days has proved to be rare. Of course, an immediate operation is carried out if there is significant clot present or repeated bleeding. During the week of delay, an attempt is made to keep the patient safe from rebleeding by reducing the blood pressure with sedation and antihypertensive agents. The antifibrinolysin cpsilo-aminocaproic acid is under trial, with the idea that it may reduce the lysis of the clot sealing the rent in the aneurysm. The fragile nature of aneurysms has been a barrier to their safe occlusion. At normal blood pressures, rupture was not uncommon during their exposure, and the obscuration of the field often prevented the completion of an accurate dissection at the neck. After 1962, we returned to artificial hypotension at normal body temperature, At first, moderate levels, 70 to 80 mm. Hg, were used but, in the past 5 years,