Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Systematic Review

Long-term outcomes of the frozen elephant trunk procedure: a systematic review David H. Tian, Hakeem Ha, Yashutosh Joshi, Tristan D. Yan

Keynote Lecture Series

Frozen elephant trunk with Frozenix prosthesis Yutaka Okita

Frozen elephant trunk with straight vascular prosthesis Heinz Jakob, Mohammed Idhrees, Mohamad Bashir

Featured Articles

Open total arch replacement with trifurcated graft and frozen elephant trunk Erik Beckmann, Andreas Martens, Wilhelm Korte, Tim Kaufeld, Heike Krueger, Axel Haverich, Malakh Shrestha

Results of frozen elephant trunk from the international E-vita Open registry Konstantinos Tsagakis, Davide Pacini, Martin Grabenwöger, Michael A. Borger, Nora Goebel, Wolfgang Hemmer, Alvaro Laranjeira Santos, Thanos Sioris, Kazimierz Widenka, Petar Risteski, Jorge Mascaro, Igor Rudez, Andreas Zierer, Carlos A. Mestres, Arjang Ruhparwar, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Heinz Jakob

Hybrid arch frozen elephant trunk repair: evidence from the Canadian Thoracic Aortic Collaborative Maral Ouzounian, Ali Hage, Jennifer Chung, Louis-Mathieu Stevens, Ismail El-Hamamsy, Vincent Chauvette, Francois Dagenais, Andreanne Cartier, Mark Peterson, Alana Harrington, Munir Boodhwani, Ming Guo, John Bozinovski, Stephanie Fox, Linrui Guo, Michael W. A. Chu, on behalf of the Canadian Thoracic Aortic Collaborative

Is the frozen elephant trunk technique justified for chronic type A aortic dissection in Marfan syndrome? Yu Chen, Wei-Guo Ma, Jian-Rong Li, Jun Zheng, Yong-Min Liu, Jun-Ming Zhu, Li-Zhong Sun

Renal protective effect of the aortic balloon occlusion technique in total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk Bowen Zhang, Yanxiang Liu, Hongwei Guo, Yunfeng Li, Yi Shi, Shenghua Liang, Hong Liu, Xiaogang Sun

Editorial

Frozen Elephant Trunk—the Bologna experience Alessandro Leone, Giacomo Murana, Giuditta Coppola, Marianna Berardi, Luca Botta, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Luca Di Marco, Davide Pacini

Aortic arch repair with frozen elephant trunk versus conventional elephant trunk Davut Cekmecelioglu, Joseph S. Coselli

Distal repair after frozen elephant trunk: open or endovascular? Christopher K. Mehta, Joseph E. Bavaria

Frozen elephant trunk: reflections of the UK Aortic Group Aung Oo, Mark L. Field

The frozen elephant trunk technique in acute and chronic aortic dissection: intraoperative setting and patient selection are key to success Tim Berger, Martin Czerny

Acute type A aortic dissection: the role of frozen elephant trunk Hitoshi Ogino

Art of Operative Techniques

Mini-access branch-first total arch replacement and frozen elephant trunk procedure Adam Chakos, Tristan D. Yan

Masters of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Normothermic frozen elephant trunk surgery without circulatory arrest: how we do it in Ancona Marco Di Eusanio, Mariano Cefarelli, Jacopo Alfonsi, Paolo Berretta, Emanuele Gatta

Mini-access branch-first total arch replacement and frozen elephant trunk procedure—how I do it John D. L. Brookes, Tristan D. Yan

Arch replacement for acute type A aortic dissection using a single fenestrated frozen elephant trunk technique Homare Okamura, Mamoru Arakawa, Atsushi Miyagawa, Yuichiro Kitada, Hideo Adachi

Total arch repair with frozen elephant trunk for type A acute aortic dissection: the “zone 0 arch repair” strategy Hiroshi Yamamoto, Takayuki Kadohama, Daichi Takagi

Use of the frozen elephant trunk technique for type B aortic dissection and aberrant right subclavian artery: an anatomic repair of the “arteria lusoria” Giacomo Murana, Luca Di Marco, Ciro Amodio, Antonino Costantino, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Alessandro Leone, Davide Pacini

Frozen elephant trunk: debranch first technique Paola Redaelli, Igor Belluschi, Luca Bertoglio, Alessandro Verzini, Roberto Chiesa, Alessandro Castiglioni

Aortic arch replacement using the branch-first and frozen elephant trunk techniques Michelle Kim, George Matalanis

Aortic valve sparing and hybrid arch frozen elephant trunk repair for mega-aortic syndrome Fadi Hage, Ali Hage, Jill Gelinas, Adam Power, Michael W. A. Chu