Single-Stage Treatment of Extensive Aortic Pathology Using the Frozen Elephant Trunk Procedure.

CONCLUSION: The frozen elephant trunk procedure can be used for a single-stage treatment of patients with extensive aortic pathology, due to chronic degenerative aneurysms or post-dissection aneurysms involving the aortic arch and the descending aorta, with acceptable mortality and morbidity. PMID: 32990581 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Heart Surgery Forum - August 27, 2020 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Risteski P, Papestiev V, Hadzievska S, Mehmedovic N, Lazovski N, Zimbakov Z, Filipce V, Shokarovski M Tags: Heart Surg Forum Source Type: research