Our team reports a 53-year-old female patient who underwent surgery to clip a giant basilar artery aneurysm; closed-chest extrathoracic cannulation for femorofemoral cardiopulmonary bypass was used, involving total circulatory arrest, deep hypothermia and heparin anticoagulation.
Se presenta el caso de una paciente con aneurisma gigante de la circulación cerebral posterior, la cual fue intervenida neuroquirurgicamente con bypass cardiopulmonar fémoro-femoral con tórax cerrado, paro circulatorio total, hipotermia profunda y anticoagulación con heparina.