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ArticleIndian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2022

"Why is frozen elephant trunk better than classical elephant trunk?"

Luca Di Marco, Carlo Mariani, Giacomo Murana, Ciro Amodio, Francesco Campanini, Marianna Berardi, Alessandro Leone, Davide Pacini

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Article in Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Frozen elephant trunk in acute aortic dissection: a literature review.Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luca Di MarcoDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Carlo MarianiDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Giacomo MuranaDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Ciro AmodioDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Francesco CampaniniDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Marianna BerardiDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Alessandro LeoneDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Davide PaciniDivision of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna, University of Bologna, Via Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna, Italy.
Azienda USL di Bologna · ITUniversity of Bologna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of complex aortic arch disease, in chronic or acute setting, has always represented a fascinating challenge for the heart surgeon also because, often, the involvement of the aortic arch is associated with a simultaneous involvement of the ascending aorta and of the proximal portion of the descending thoracic aorta. In recent years, there have been many surgical and/or endovascular techniques and approaches in a single step or multiple steps proposed with the aim of treating and simplifying these complex conditions. The first procedure available for this purpose was the conventional elephant trunk technique, proposed by the German surgeon Hans Borst, back in 1983. In the following years, the technique has undergone modifications, up to what is nowadays considered its most modern evolution, represented by the frozen elephant trunk which allows managing the proximal descending thoracic aorta using the antegrade release of a self-expandable stent graft. In this review article, we try to analyze the advantages and drawbacks of both techniques from clinical and practical points of view.

Indexed as

Antegrade perfusionAortic archAortic surgeryElephant trunkFETThoracic aorta

Identifiers

PMID35463719
PMCPMC8980990
OpenAlexW4221059999

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