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No postoperative paraplegia occurred in a patient whose leg myogenic motor evoked potentials (mMEPs) disappeared during thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. A 69-year-old man underwent resection and repair of a type III (Crawford classification) thoracoabdominal aneurysm. An epidural catheter was placed into the epidural space for epidural cooling, and a Swan-Ganz catheter was placed into the subarachnoid space for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage. Continuous CSF pressure and temperature measurement was carried out the day before surgery. The mMEPs gradually disappeared 10 min after proximal double aortic clamping and complete aortic transection. Selective perfusion of intercostal arteries was started about 20 min after the loss of the mMEPs, but the mMEPs were not restored. Possibly, spinal cord hyperemia, induced by selective perfusion of the intercostal vessels, narrowed the subarachnoid space so that CSF could not be satisfactorily drained during surgery. The spinal cord hyperemia may have decreased spinal function and suppressed the leg mMEPs. The persistence of the loss of mMEPs was undeniably due to the influence of the anesthetic agent or a perfusion disorder in the lower-extremity muscles. Of note, moderate spinal cord hypothermia and postoperative CSF drainage probably resulted in improved lower-limb motor function.
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Denda, S., Taneoka, M., Honda, H. et al. Prolonged loss of leg myogenic motor evoked potentials during thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair, without postoperative paraplegia. J Anesth 20, 314–318 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-006-0439-0
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