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A system of coaxial catheters is pushed inside the arterial circulation, usually through a percutaneous access to the right femoral artery. A microcatheter is finally positioned beyond the occluded segment and a stent-retriever is deployed to catch the thrombus; finally, the stent is pulled out from the artery, usually under continuous ...
The Senning procedure is an atrial switch heart operation performed to treat transposition of the great arteries. It is named after its inventor, the Swedish cardiac surgeon Åke Senning (1915–2000), also known for implanting the first permanent cardiac pacemaker in 1958.
Arterial switch operation (ASO) or arterial switch, is an open heart surgical procedure used to correct dextro-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA). [1] [2]Its development was pioneered by Canadian cardiac surgeon William Mustard and it was named for Brazilian cardiac surgeon Adib Jatene, who was the first to use it successfully.
Rodbard and Wagner connected the right atrial appendage to the right pulmonary artery in an early report on this surgical technique. [16] Carlon et al reported the first superior cavo-pulmonary anastomosis between the right pulmonary artery and azygos vein, demonstrated an increase in pulmonary blood flow in dogs. [ 17 ]
A pulmonary thrombectomy is an emergency surgical procedure used to remove blood clots from the pulmonary arteries. Mechanical thrombectomies can be surgical (surgical thrombectomy) or percutaneous (percutaneous thrombectomy). [1] Surgical thrombectomies were once popular but were abandoned because of poor long-term outcomes.
PTEs and pulmonary thrombectomies are both operations that removed thrombus from the lung's arterial vasculature. Aside from this similarity they differ in many ways. PTEs are done on a nonemergency basis while pulmonary thrombectomies are typically done as an emergency procedure. PTEs typically are done using hypothermia and full circulatory ...
The Mustard procedure was developed in 1963 by Dr. William Mustard at the Hospital for Sick Children. It is similar to the previous atrial baffle used with a Senning procedure , the primary difference being that the Mustard uses a graft made of Dacron or pericardium , while the Senning uses native heart tissue.
In atrial fibrillation, [13] the left atrial appendage fibrillates rather than contracts resulting in blood stasis that predisposes to the formation of blood clots. [9] Because of consequent stroke risk, surgeons may choose to close it during open-heart surgery, using a left atrial appendage occlusion procedure. [18]