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Novel and Innovative Hybrid Technique for Type A Aortic Dissection
Published on: March 28, 2025
A modified frozen elephant trunk hybrid device to facilitate supra-aortic trunk anastomosis
Paolo Masiello1, Generoso Mastrogiovanni1, Pierpaolo Chivasso1
1Emergency Cardiac Surgery, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi D'Aragona", Salerno, Italy.
Abstract:
Reimplantation of the supra-aortic vessels can be challenging with Thoraflex Hybrid. A device modification made the vessel lengths more appropriate and the position of the neo-vessels in the chest avoided malpositioning and kinking and facilitated sternum closure; this may improve operating times as well as allowing complete and continuous cerebral trivascular perfusion and corrects positioning of the intrathoracic vessels.
