Spinal cord ischemia in thoracoabdominal aneurysm surgery: monitoring and conditioning the spinal cord

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Chapter 1: General introduction: Ischemic spinal cord injury and thoraco-abdominal aneurysm surgery: an overview of anatomical and physiological considerations

Chapter 2: Pharmacological neuroprotection in spinal cord ischemia.

Chapter 3: A comparison of the sensitivity of epidural and myogenic transcranial motor evoked potentials in the detection of acute spinal cord ischemia in the rabbit.

Chapter 4: Efficacy of transcranial motor evoked myogenic potentials to detect spinal cord ischemia during thoraco-abdominal aneurysm surgery.

Chapter 5: Spinal cord monitoring with motor evoked potentials: Early detection of spinal cord ischemia as an integral part of spinal cord protective strategies during thoraco-abdominal aneurysm surgery.

Chapter 6: Development of spinal cord ischemia after clamping of non-critical segmental arteries in the pig.

Chapter 7: Effect of mild hypothermia and the 21-aminosteroid U-74389G on neurologic and histopathologic outcome after transient spinal cord ischemia in the rabbit.

Chapter 8: Effect of ischemic preconditioning on heat shock protein 72 production, neurologic outcome and histopathology in a rabbit model of spinal cord ischemia.

Chapter 9: General discussion and future perspectives.

Chapter 10: Summary & Nederlandse samenvatting

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