Is extensive deployment of the stented elephant trunk associated with an increased risk of spinal cord injury?
Spinal cord injury after stented elephant trunk deployment might be related to occlusion of the excessive intercostal arteries or thromboembolism. Patients with a history of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair who require extensive deployment of the stented elephant trunk seem to be at a higher risk for spinal cord injury.
Treatment with ACE-inhibitors attenuates retinal overexpression of VEGF-A in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, probably by interference with a local effect of angiotensin II.