Dr Preventza and associates performed a meta-analysis of 3,154 patients who underwent frozen elephant trunk procedure to determine the incidence of neurologic complications. The incidences were 4.7% for spinal cord injury and 7.6% for stroke.
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Aortic Arch
October 31, 2019
August 13, 2019
A most educative cross-Atlantic retrospective study on an always important question. The short accompanying video is also valuable!
July 12, 2019
Investigators reported the distribution of thoracic aortic growth in smokers based on longitudinal data of current and ex-smokers aged 50-70 years from the Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial.
June 24, 2019
Colleagues from five heart centers performed a study on the incidence and factors associated with acute stroke following type A repair using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (STS ACSD).
June 13, 2019
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.
June 11, 2019
Food for thought from a retrospective non-randomized study on the Scandinavian experience with acute aortic dissection. The reader may find outcomes that will surpise them.
May 20, 2019
Discussion and critique editorials accompany this report on extensive emergency surgical treatment of aortic dissection, fueling an important debate.
April 25, 2019
The authors present their technique, developed to streamline performance of the frozen elephant trunk.
April 24, 2019
In 148 patients with type A aortic dissection who underwent emergency total arch replacement, 155 had a conventional elephant trunk procedure (CET, age 65 ± 12 years) and 33 had a frozen elephant trunk procedure (FET, 67 ± 11 years). Early mortality was similar in the two groups (8.7% with CET versus 6.1% with FET).
April 16, 2019
The UK Aortic Group report their experience with the frozen elephant trunk (FET) repair for 66 acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) patients using the Thoraflex Hybrid graft at eight UK high-volume aortic centers. The in-hospital mortality was 12% (8/66).