Open or endovascular treatment of downstream thoracic or thoraco-abdominal aortic pathology after frozen elephant trunk: perioperative and mid-term outcomes.
Diletta LoschiAndrea MelloniAlessandro GrandiDomenico BaccellieriFabrizio MonacoGermano MelissanoRoberto ChiesaBertoglio LucaPublished in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2021)
Downstream aortic repair after FET is feasible with both open and endovascular repair with acceptable mortality and permanent paraplegia rates. The endovascular approach has potential perioperative and mid-term advantages, but long-term durability has to be further investigated in larger cohorts.
Keyphrases
- endovascular treatment
- abdominal aortic
- minimally invasive
- aortic dissection
- cardiac surgery
- patients undergoing
- spinal cord
- aortic valve
- cardiovascular events
- left ventricular
- pulmonary artery
- risk factors
- heart failure
- metabolic syndrome
- coronary artery disease
- type diabetes
- cardiovascular disease
- mass spectrometry
- spinal cord injury
- abdominal aortic aneurysm
- pulmonary hypertension
- coronary artery
- insulin resistance
- adipose tissue
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- weight loss