Acute aortic dissection is a highly lethal disease. When dissection involves only the descending aorta and there are no ischemic complications, medical management may be the treatment of choice. Howev
We have modified the technique of cerebral perfusion through anastomosed grafts for repair of acute arch dissections that require total arch replacement. We have performed this operation on a 71-year-
A 92-year-old woman with normal systolic function had recently begun using the newly approved phosphodiesterase III inhibitor cilostazol when she was admitted with lower-extremity pain. Cilostazol is
We performed coronary artery bypass grafting on a 58-year-old man who only 9 months earlier had undergone right pneumonectomy for bronchial carcinoma. Although his preoperative pulmonary function had
