The Frozen Elephant Trunk in the Treatment of Aneurysm and Dissection

Filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, an international panel of experts discuss the use of the frozen elephant trunk procedure in the treatment of aneurysm and dissection. Mohamad Bashir of the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, is joined by Martin Czerny of the University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Ruggero De Paulis of the European Hospital, Rome, Italy; Roberto Di Bartolomeo of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; and Malakh Shrestha of the Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany. The experts weigh in on this controversial topic, sharing specific techniques for utilizing the frozen elephant trunk procedure and discussing clinical scenarios.