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Current Options and Recommendations for the Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Pathologies Involving the Aortic Arch: An Expert Consensus Document of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the European Society for Vascular Surgery

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

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Aristotle Protopapas

Source

Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezy313

Author(s)

Martin Czerny, Jürg Schmidli, Sabine Adler, Jos C van den Berg, Luca Bertoglio, Thierry Carrel, Roberto Chiesa, Rachel E Clough, Balthasar Eberle, Christian Etz, Martin Grabenwöger, Stephan Haulon, Heinz Jakob, Fabian A Kari, Carlos A Mestres, Davide Pacini, Timothy Resch, Bartosz Rylski, Florian Schoenhoff, Malakh Shrestha, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk, Konstantinos Tsagakis, Thomas R Wyss, EACTS/ESVS scientific document group

Essential reading, paying particular attention to the table in Section 7: the European experts recommend, again, that in Marfan and other systematic connective tissue diseases conventional techniques are still advantageous because the landing zones will eventually degenerate.

Jointly published in the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2018.09.016