Worldwide results from the RESTORE II on elective endografting of thoracic aneurysms and dissections.

Objective: To assess safety, performance, and efficacy of the RELAY thoracic stent graft (Bolton Medical, Barcelona, Spain) in the treatment of patients who require elective thoracic endovascular aortic repair including aneurysms and dissections.

Methods: The RELAY Endovascular Registry for Thoracic Disease II (RESTORE II) is a multicenter, prospective, international cohort study involving 21 centers in 12 countries worldwide. All consecutively included patients underwent elective thoracic endovascular aortic repair with a RELAY or RELAY NBS stent graft (including off the shelf and custom-made devices) to repair thoracic aortic aneurysms or dissections.

German Registry for Acute Aortic Dissection Type A: Structure, Results, and Future Perspectives.

The German Registry for Acute Aortic Dissection Type A (GERAADA) as an international registry for acute aortic dissection type A (AADA) offers a unique opportunity to answer questions regarding acute dissections that cannot be answered by single institution's database alone. GERAADA was started in 2006 by the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS) and has collected more than 3,300 AADA patients' data from 56 centers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland up to now. In the second generated validated dataset comprising the years from 2006 to 2010, 2,137 patients were surgically treated for AADA with an overall 30-day mortality of 16.

Current trends in cannulation and neuroprotection during surgery of the aortic arch in Europe.

Objectives: To conduct a survey across European cardiac centres to evaluate the methods used for cerebral protection during aortic surgery involving the aortic arch.

Methods: All European centres were contacted and surgeons were requested to fill out a short, comprehensive questionnaire on an internet-based platform. One-third of more than 400 contacted centres completed the survey correctly.