The implementation of new surgical techniques offers chances but carries risks. Usually,
several years pass before a critical appraisal and a balanced opinion of a new treatment …

OBJECTIVE: Available data on clinical outcomes of hybrid aortic arch repair are limited,
especially for patients with aortic dissection. The objective of this review was to provide …

OBJECTIVES Frozen elephant trunk (FET) can be used for continuous downstream aorta
treatment in acute aortic dissection (AAD) and chronic aortic dissection (CAD). The study …

Background The treatment of complex pathologies of the aortic arch and proximal
descending aorta represents a significant challenge for cardiac surgeons. Various surgical …

BACKGROUND: Cerebral protection during aortic arch surgery can be performed using
various surgical strategies. We retrospectively analyzed our results of different brain …

Complex lesions of the thoracic aorta are traditionally treated in 2 surgical steps with the
elephant trunk technique. A relatively new approach is the frozen elephant trunk (FET) …

OBJECTIVES Despite the popularity of the frozen elephant technique procedure in recent
years, evidence is scarce regarding its utilization for aortic arch replacement following …

The frozen elephant trunk (FET) procedure, or open stent grafting, is a tool for the combined
open and endovascular treatment via a median sternotomy of extensive aortic disease …

Background The frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique was developed to facilitate the two-
stage surgery of extensive pathologies of the thoracic aorta and is now routinely applied in …

OBJECTIVES The frozen elephant trunk technique is an increasingly common treatment for
extensive disease of the thoracic aorta. The objective of the study was to evaluate the …