The frozen elephant trunk procedure: indications, outcomes and future directions
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DOI: 10.21037/cdt-22-330
Abstract: The treatment of complex multi-segment disease concomitantly affecting the aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta is technically challenging. Until the 1990s, such extensive pathology was addressed by median sternotomy for aortic arch replacement followed by… read more here.
Keywords: outcomes future; procedure; trunk procedure; elephant trunk ... See more keywords
Transesophageal Echocardiography-Guided Elephant Trunk Procedure for Repair of Descending Thoracic Aorta: A Case Report
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DOI: 10.4103/aca.aca_132_23
Abstract: ABSTRACT The elephant trunk procedure, an endovascular strategy for retrograde type A acute aortic dissection, is associated with several complications, hemolytic anemia being a rare one. We performed endovascular stent-graft insertion in a patient who… read more here.
Keywords: procedure; transesophageal echocardiography; elephant trunk; trunk procedure ... See more keywords