Are current follow-up intervals justified in patients with non-emergent aortic surgeries?

Objectives: Evidence for different surveillance protocols following aortic treatment is still lacking. Aim of this study was to analyze the clinical relevance of a first follow-up visit after 6 months.

Methods: Between 01/2018 and 12/2019, 464 patients treated for non-emergent aortic pathologies were retrospectively analysed.

Correlation Between Intraoperative Near-infrared Spectroscopy Values and Neurologic Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Total Aortic Arch Replacement Using the Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique.

Objective: To correlate intraoperative near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) values with neurologic outcomes in patients undergoing total aortic arch replacement using the frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique.

Design: Retrospective, single-center registry study using a two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance.

Setting: Between November 2013 and December 2023, 427 patients were treated for acute and chronic aortic pathologies using the FET procedure.

Inferior mesenteric artery diameter and number of patent lumbar arteries as factors associated with significant type 2 endoleak after infrarenal endovascular aneurysm repair.

Objectives: Our goal was to identify the inferior mesenteric artery diameter and number of patent lumbar arteries causing a significant type 2 endoleak to develop after infrarenal endovascular aneurysm repair.

Material And Methods: Included were patients who underwent infrarenal endovascular aneurysm repair between April 2002 and January 2017. Patients with an aneurysm involving the iliac arteries were excluded.

Redo aortic root repair in patients with infective prosthetic endocarditis using xenopericardial solutions.

Objectives: We describe a conceptual approach involving the use of self-made xenopericardial grafts in combination with biological aortic valve prostheses and in addition using a xenopericardial tubes for aortic valve reimplantation in patients with infective prosthetic endocarditis after aortic root repair or supracoronary ascending aortic replacement.

Methods: The cohort comprised 7 consecutive patients with proven prosthetic infection either after aortic root replacement (n = 5), the David operation (n = 1) or supracoronary ascending aortic replacement (n = 1). The strategy consists of complete removal of the infected prosthetic material and orthotopic reconstruction using a bovine pericardial patch sewn as a tube according to the required aortic diameter.