Cardiac and vascular surgeons for the treatment of aortic disease : a successful partnership for decision-making and management of complex cases

Capoccia, Massimo and Pal, Soumik and Murphy, Michael and Mireskandari, Maziar and Hoschtitzy, Andreas and Nienaber, Christoph A. and Cheshire, Nicholas J. and Rosendahl, Ulrich P. (2021) Cardiac and vascular surgeons for the treatment of aortic disease : a successful partnership for decision-making and management of complex cases. Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 9. (https://doi.org/10.1177/2324709620970890)

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Abstract

Traditionally, cardiac and vascular surgeons have been treating diseases of the aorta as individual specialists. Neither cardiac nor vascular surgeons have ever considered the aorta as a whole, which can be diseased throughout its length at the same time requiring a more thoughtful and different approach. Aortic dissection and aneurysmal disease may well benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. In the context of this review, we discuss examples of joint operating between cardiac and vascular surgeons that may well become a more routine approach in more units in the future.

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