title: [Treatment of aortic arch disease: state of the art and future perspectives].
abstract: Patients with dissecting or aneurysmal disease of the aortic arch represent a unique challenge for the cardiac surgeon, and the employment of valid surgical and endovascular techniques and appropriate methods of cerebral protection is crucial for obtaining satisfactory postoperative results. Open surgical repair remains the approach of choice, even if supported by increasingly improved endovascular procedures. At present, a wide range of surgical, endovascular and hybrid procedures is available for the treatment of these high-risk patients. The aim of this review is to describe the different procedures used in patients with aortic arch pathology and to review the main results available in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Cardiochirurgia, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. marco.dieusanio2@unibo.it
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Eusanio
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Folesani
authors.forename: Francesco Dimitri
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Petridis
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Di Bartolomeo
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D001015:Aortic Arch Syndromes / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D058017:Vascular Grafting / Q000379:methods; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends