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Emergency aortic arch replacement using the debranch‐first technique with a custom‐made prosthesis
Author(s) -
Belluschi Igor,
Verzini Alessandro,
Bertoglio Luca,
Castiglioni Alessandro
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.14285
Subject(s) - medicine , prosthesis , arch , aortic arch , prosthesis design , surgery , aorta , structural engineering , engineering
Acute aortic arch dissections represent life‐threatening conditions with a high rate of mortality and neurological complications. Past longer techniques included an “en bloc” replacement of epiaortic vessels or the frozen elephant trunk (FET) procedure with conventional grafts for chronic dilatation. In this report, we described a case of an acute aortic dissection in a patient with aberrant right subclavian artery and challenging sovra‐aortic vessel anatomy, treated with the new custom‐made E‐Vita Open Plus FET graft.