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March 1, 2011European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic SurgeryOpen Access

Facilitated aortic arch repair with the frozen elephant trunk technique

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Population

3 patients with extensive disease of the thoracic aorta

Design

Case_series

Authors

MEMarco Di EusanioFPFrancesco Dimitri PetridisDPDavide Pacini

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Overview

May warrant consideration in select extensive aortic cases; leaves open need for prospective validation of safety and outcomes.

Structured PICO

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Population
3 patients with extensive disease of the thoracic aorta
I
Intervention
Frozen elephant trunk technique (combining surgical and endovascular techniques)
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Outcome
Facilitation of surgical arch repair and patient management

The frozen elephant trunk technique may facilitate surgical arch repair in patients with extensive thoracic aortic disease.

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Eusanio et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a982a40cc61a2345e6c7553https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcts.2011.02.017
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