This video illustrates total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk technique on a 84-year-old patient with 95% occlusion of the right coronary artery (RCA) and a total arch aneurysm extending from the ascending aorta well into the proximal descending thoracic aorta.
Video Chapters 00:00:19 Case Presentation 00:01:38 Operative Strategy Outline 00:04:25 Epi-aortic Branch Reconstruction 00:08:28 Elephant Trunk Procedure 00:10:42 Antegrade Stent Deployment 00:12:29 Proximal anastomoses 00:17:09 Postoperative course
Cite this article as: Preventza O, Al-Najjar R, LeMaire SA, Weldon S, Coselli JS. Total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk technique. Ann Cardiothorac Surg 2013;2(5):649-652. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2225-319X.2013.06.01
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