The reversed and bidirectional elephant trunk technique in the treatment of complex aortic aneurysms | Zendy

Thierry Carrel | Zendy; Pascal Berdat | Zendy; Beat Kipfer | Zendy; Friedrich Eckstein | Zendy; Jürg Schmidli | Zendy

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The reversed and bidirectional elephant trunk technique in the treatment of complex aortic aneurysms

Author(s) -

Thierry Carrel,

Pascal Berdat,

Beat Kipfer,

Friedrich Eckstein,

Jürg Schmidli

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.458

H-Index - 192

eISSN - 1085-8687

pISSN - 0022-5223

DOI - 10.1067/mtc.2001.115924

Subject(s) - elephant trunks , medicine , descending aorta , trunk , aorta , ascending aorta , aortic arch , thoracic aorta , surgery , aortic aneurysm , ecology , biology

The elephant trunk technique with a free-floating vascular prosthesis was originally developed to facilitate a subsequent operation on the downstream aorta. We present here our experience with further developments of this technique, which we call the reversed elephant trunk and bidirectional elephant trunk.

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