Type IV thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs) affect the aorta between the diaphragm and aortic bifurcation (Fig. 1). For technical reasons, the aneurysms affecting only the part of aorta from which visceral arteries arise are also categorized as type IV. The level of difficulty of surgical treatment for type IV TAAAs lies between that of type II, which involve descending thoracic and abdom...

Correspondence and requests for reprints to James I. Fann, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California 94305-5247, USA. Tel: þ1 650 858 3917; fax: þ1 650 723 7110; e-mail: [email protected] Introduction Since the incidence of thoracic aortic aneurysms are over five cases per 100 000 person-years, patien...

A prospective, single-center, nonrandomized trial from November 2013 to February 2018. spinal cord injury (SCI) prevention protocol was used for 170 patients with thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs) or complex abdominal who were treated by fenestrated-branched endovascular repair (F-BEVAR). Of the patients, 91 (55%) had neuromonitoring changes, which improved maneuvers in all except 9 (10...