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Konstantinos Tsagakis
E-vita Open was the first commercially available hybrid graft for frozen elephant trunk (FET) surgery (1). Fifteen years after the first implantation in Essen, a new generation of grafts were developed to address the requirements...
…Filmed at the 2018 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Mohamad Bashir of the Barts Heart Centre in London, UK, moderates a discussion on the frozen elephant trunk procedure. Dr...
Abstract Stability of the aortic annulus, symmetrical commissures, and sufficient coaptation are key factors in achieving long-term durability of aortic valve reimplantation. The authors propose a novel method of prosthesis...
The Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique using a Hybrid Prosthesis is presented as a collaborative Expert Technique by the Heart Center Leipzig and the West-German Heart Center Essen. The keys to...