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Correspondence

Long-Term Follow-Up of the Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique for Distal Aortic Arch Aneurysm

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550 Japan

(Email: ausui@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp).

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To the Editor:

The frozen elephant trunk technique is an alternate modality for synthetic graft replacement of distal arch aneurysms. We have performed the frozen elephant trunk technique for relatively high operative risk patients since 1997. We previously reported the early surgical outcomes of 24 cases in 2002 [1]. However, the long-term follow-up results remain a major concern. We herein report the late results of the same cohort.

There were 24 patients whose cases we followed-up on for more than 7 years, with an average follow-up period of 85 months (range, 3 to 139 months). The patients consisted of 22 males and . . . [Full Text of this Article]