Effects of Ischemic Preconditioning After Aortic Clamping

Protective Effects of Ischemic Preconditioning on Cardiac, Renal, Pulmonary and Muscular Functions After Aortic Clamping

Open surgery for aneurysmal aortic disease can lead to cardiac, renal, pulmonary or muscular complications, essentially due to the aortic clamping. Ischemic preconditioning can be useful in order to decrease these complications. The investigators would like to use an ischemic preconditioning protocol during open surgery of aortic aneurysm in order to decrease these complications.

Inclusion criteria:

• Patients with an aortic aneurysm requiring open surgery (with no possibility of endovascular surgery)
• Patients who received clear information, with signed consent
• Patients 18 to 85 years

Exclusion criteria:

• Patients under guardianship
• No possibility to give the patients clear information (comprehension difficulties, emergency surgery)
• Pregnancy, lactation
• Hemodialysis