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. 2012 Sep 29;61(3):118–126. doi: 10.1007/s11748-012-0151-y

Table 2.

Case series and results of other procedures among conventional elephant trunk procedure, 1-stage extensive aortic replacement, and endovascular stent grafting to the landing zone 0 with total arch rerouting

Procedure References Years Number In-hospital mortality Stroke Spinal cord injury
Conventional elephant trunk Svensson [14] 2004 94 7 (18.4 %) 5 (5.3 %) 2 (2.1 %)
Coselli [15] 2005 38 7 (18.4 %) 2 (5.3 %) 1 (3 %)
LeMaire [16] 2006 148 21 (14.1 %) 9 (6.1 %) 2 (1.3 %)
Safi [17] 2007 254 27 (10.6 %) 5 (2 %) 1 (0.4 %)
Etz [18] 2008 215 16 (8 %) 14 (6.5 %) 2 (0.9 %)
Toda [19] 2009 111 4 (3.6 %) 2 (1.8 %) 9 (8.1 %)
Total 860 82 (9.5 %) 37 (4.3 %) 17 (2.0 %)
One-stage approach Minale [20] 1994 12 2 (16 %) 0 0
Massimo [21] 1997 34 5 (14.7 %) 0 3 (8.8 %)
Beaver [22] 2001 14 2 (14 %) 1 (7 %) 2 (14 %)
Doss [23] 2007 15 1 (6.6 %) 3 (20 %) 0
Kouchoukos [24] 2007 69 5 (7.2 %) 0 1 (1.4 %)
Okada [25] 2009 16 1 (6.3 %) 1 (6 %) 1 (6.3 %)
Total 160 16 (10 %) 5 (3.1 %) 7 (4.4 %)
Debranching of the aortic arch and TEVAR Melissano [26] 2007 64 4 (6.3 %) 2 (3.1 %) 2 (3.1 %)
Gottardi [27] 2008 73 5 (6.8 %) 1 (1.4 %) 0
Kurimoto [28] 2009 104 8 (7.7 %) 5 (4.9 %) 3 (2.9 %)
Kotelis [29] 2009 88 17 (19 %) 5 (4.9 %) 1 (1.1 %)
Hughes [30] 2009 28 0 0 1 (3.6 %)
Donas [31] 2010 20 3 (15 %) 3 (15 %) 0
Total 377 37 (9.8 %) 16 (4.2 %) 7 (1.9 %)