Paving the way for E-vita open NEO hybrid prosthesis implantation for complex aortic arch disease in Asia-Pacific

Heinz Jakob; Jacky Y K Ho; Randolph H L Wong; Mohammed Idhrees; Bashi Velayudhan; George Matalanis; Daniel-Sebastian Dohle; Klaus Görlinger; Mohamad Bashir

doi:10.1111/jocs.15882

Paving the way for E-vita open NEO hybrid prosthesis implantation for complex aortic arch disease in Asia-Pacific

J Card Surg. 2021 Oct;36(10):3963-3967. doi: 10.1111/jocs.15882. Epub 2021 Aug 2.

Authors

Heinz Jakob^{1

2}, Jacky Y K Ho³, Randolph H L Wong³, Mohammed Idhrees⁴, Bashi Velayudhan⁴, George Matalanis^{5

6}, Daniel-Sebastian Dohle⁷, Klaus Görlinger⁸, Mohamad Bashir⁹

Affiliations

¹ Diagnosticum Mülheim, Mülheim, Germany.
² Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.
⁴ Institute of Cardiac and Aortic Disease, SRM Institutes for Medical Science (SIMS Hospital), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁵ Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁷ Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
⁸ Tem Innovations GmbH, Munich, Germany.
⁹ SRM Institutes for Medical Science (SIMS Hospital), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

PMID: 34338352
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.15882

Abstract

We report first in man implantations of the newly designed Evita-open-NEO hybrid prosthesis for complex aortic arch disease from three different countries in Asia-Pacific including instructions on how to proceed with perioperative coagulation management.

Keywords: E-vita-openNeo; frozen elephant trunk; thrombelastometry; total arch replacement.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic* / surgery
Aortic Dissection* / surgery
Blood Vessel Prosthesis
Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation*
Humans
Prosthesis Implantation