Risk Assessment in Surgical ProceduresPatient Engagement and CommunicationOperational Challenges in Surgerychest infectionheart attackkidney dysfunctionparaparesisparaplegiaendovascular repairopen repaircardiovascular systemrespiratory systemendovascular surgery
Risk of Fenestrated & Branched Endovascular Repair
FEVAR and BEVAR need to be done at experienced centers by experienced surgeons. The planning is critical. The risks are similar to those of open repair, however, many are smaller in magnitude. The key risk remains paraplegia. Prof Mussa discusses those risks and how you can ask your surgeon ahead of time.
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So, the risk of fenestrated and branched navascular repair are not small. It has to be done in an experienced center by experienced hands. There is certain things besides the secondary intervention and needing touch-ups here and there. The technical issues or the immediate complication that happens within the hospital course are important. So beside the anesthetic risk and let's say lung or heart issues like chest infection or a heart attack, which hope to be eliminated by proper and thorough evaluation before surgery. But there are certain things that are specific to endovascular repair, meaning kidney dysfunction from the contrast, neurogenic problem, meaning from the extent of repair may have paraplegia or paraparesis, meaning cannot move their arms, cannot move their legs, excuse me. This happens with open repair at a higher level. However, it's still existing in endovascular repair. So it's really an important discussion to be had with the patient prior to surgery, depending on the extent of the operation and the intended risk. you
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