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Endovascular Hybrid Aortic Arch Repair

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Despite substantial advances in refining conventional surgical technique, there still remain elderly or physiologically frail patients who should probably not undergo standard arch replacement. This may be true in particular for patients with multisegmental thoracic aortic disease originating at the level of the aortic arch.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Freiburgstrasse, Berne, 3010, Switzerland

    Martin Czerny M.D.

  2. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Michael Grimm M.D.

  3. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Michael Grimm M.D.

  4. Department of Interventional Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Martin Funovics M.D.

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  1. Klinik Hirslanden, Thoraxzentrum Zürich, Witellikerstr. 40, Zürich, 8008, Switzerland

    Rolf Gilbert Carl Inderbitzi

  2. , Division of General Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Berne
, Freiburgstr. 2010, Berne, 3010, Switzerland

    Ralph Alexander Schmid

  3. , Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, Pisa, 56100, Italy

    Franca M. A. Melfi

  4. St. Mary's Hospital, Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Praed Street, LONDON, W2 1NY, United Kingdom

    Roberto Pasquale Casula

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Czerny, M., Grimm, M., Funovics, M. (2012). Endovascular Hybrid Aortic Arch Repair. In: Inderbitzi, R., Schmid, R., Melfi, F., Casula, R. (eds) Minimally Invasive Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11861-6_48

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