Staged replacement of the aortic arch and thoraco-abdominal aorta (TAA) with a frozen elephant trunk followed by TAA repair is a valuable treatment for patients with chronic TAA dissection. However, in patients with an unclampable descending thoracic aorta, the retrieval of the trunk can be problematic and the proximal stent graft-to-graft anastomosis technically challenging. Here we present our 'double layer' frozen elephant trunk technique to treat patients with TAA dissection.
Di Eusanio M., Berretta P., Cefarelli M., Gatta E. (2020). 'Double layer' frozen elephant trunk with balloon endoclamping: A technique to simplify the 2-stage open repair of thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY, 58(2), 389-391 [10.1093/ejcts/ezaa070].
'Double layer' frozen elephant trunk with balloon endoclamping: A technique to simplify the 2-stage open repair of thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms
Di Eusanio M.;Berretta P.;Cefarelli M.;Gatta E.
2020
Abstract
Staged replacement of the aortic arch and thoraco-abdominal aorta (TAA) with a frozen elephant trunk followed by TAA repair is a valuable treatment for patients with chronic TAA dissection. However, in patients with an unclampable descending thoracic aorta, the retrieval of the trunk can be problematic and the proximal stent graft-to-graft anastomosis technically challenging. Here we present our 'double layer' frozen elephant trunk technique to treat patients with TAA dissection.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
