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.
'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.File in questo prodotto:
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