| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Although trans-cranial motor evoked potential (TC-MEP) has been used to prevent ischemic spinal cord injury during aortic surgery, low specificity has been a problem. We have developed trans-esophageal motor evoked potential (TE-MEP) and have shown that it has a better specificity. As a clinically relevant method of TE-MEP, a novel method of bipolar trans-esophageal thoracic cord stimulation was developed, and its feasibility and utility were confirmed in an animal study. In a clinical study, TE-MEP can consistently be monitored after modification of a stimulation electrode and stimulation condition. Its specificity was better than that of TC-MEP. This result was presented at EACTS meeting in Lisbon (October 2019), and was published in EJCTS (doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezaa002).
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