Convenient and accurate landing technique for the frozen elephant trunk.
Accurate distal landing is essential to avoid paraplegia while performing the frozen elephant trunk technique (FETT). A 72-year-old man who had a hippocampus-shape aneurysm in the descending aorta was successfully treated by the FETT with a certain and sophisticated method to position the Stent graft precisely using a 16-F nephrostomy balloon catheter. No cerebrospinal complications were observed postoperatively, and computed tomography did not reveal any endleakage.
Miyamoto
Shinji
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University, 1-1 Hasama-machi, Yufu-shi, Oita 879-5593, Japan. smiyamot@med.oita-u.ac.jp
Hadama
Tetsuo
T
Anai
Hirofumi
H
Wada
Tomoyuki
T
Iwata
Eriko
E
Tanaka
Hideyuki
H
D000368:Aged; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods