Complications of treatment
| • Left thoracotomy approach |
| ‐ bleeding, haemothorax |
| ‐ chylothorax |
| ‐ recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy |
| ‐ phrenic nerve palsy |
| ‐ Horner’s syndrome |
| ‐ paradoxical hypertension (risk of suture leak) |
| ‐ paraplegia |
| ‐ left arm impaired growth/ischaemia (subclavian flap repair) |
| ‐ vertebro-basilar ischaemia (subclavian flap repair) |
| ‐ cerebral ischaemia (extended arch repair) |
| • Cardiopulmonary bypass |
| ‐ bleeding |
| ‐ cerebral ischaemia |
| ‐ myocardial dysfunction |
| ‐ recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy |
| ‐ Horner’s syndrome |
| ‐ paradoxical hypertension (risk of suture leak) |
| • Catheter intervention |
| ‐ femoral artery occlusion/pseudoaneurysm |
| ‐ aortic dissection/aneurysm/rupture |
| ‐ paraplegia (? with covered stent) |
| ‐ stent migration/malposition |