Outcomes of fenestrated frozen elephant trunk technique in 150 patients with acute type A aortic dissection.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The fenestrated frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique provides proximalization of distal anastomosis and antegrade blood flow into supra-aortic vessels through fenestration in a FET. We investigated the outcomes of the fenestrated FET technique in acute type A aortic dissection.

Methods

We evaluated 150 patients who underwent arch repair using the fenestrated FET technique for acute type A aortic dissection between July 2014 and January 2023. FET was deployed under hypothermic circulatory arrest and manually fenestrated under direct vision on the supra-aortic vessel aspect. Fenestration was performed for the left subclavian artery alone in 139 patients, 2 supra-aortic vessels in 9 patients, and total supra-aortic vessels in 2 patients. Fixation around fenestration

SUBMITTER: Okamura H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11519760 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature