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Convenient and accurate landing technique for the frozen elephant trunk
Shinji Miyamoto1, Tetsuo Hadama, Hirofumi Anai
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University, 1-1 Hasama-machi, Yufu-shi, Oita 879-5593, Japan. smiyamot@med.oita-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Accurate distal landing is essential to avoid paraplegia while performing the frozen elephant trunk technique (FETT). A 72-year-old man who had a hippocampus-shape aneurysm in the descending aorta was successfully treated by the FETT with a certain and sophisticated method to position the Stent graft precisely using a 16-F nephrostomy balloon catheter. No cerebrospinal complications were observed postoperatively, and computed tomography did not reveal any endleakage.
