Aortic cross-clamp
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aortic-cross-clamp-183-1647104
title:
Aortic cross-clamp
text:
An aortic cross-clamp is a surgical instrument used in cardiac surgery to clamp the aorta and separate the systemic circulation from the outflow of the heart. An aortic cross-clamping procedure serves, for example, in the repairing of coarctation of the aorta. In newborns, the treatment of choice for this condition is resection and primary anastomosis. The clamping of the aorta excludes the systemic circulation, by definition, thus causing an ischemia. When a long cross-clamping period or a drop
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description:
Instrument in heart surgery
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aortic_cross-clamp
date created:
2006-12-11T00:52:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T23:48:29Z
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