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The elephant trunk is freezing: The Hannover experience Malakh Shrestha, MBBS, Erik Beckmann, MD, Heike Krueger, RN, Felix Fleissner, MD, Tim Kaufeld, MD, Nurbol Koigeldiyev, MD, Julia Umminger, MD, Fabio Ius, MD, Axel Haverich, MD, Andreas Martens, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 149, Issue 5, Pages 1286-1293 (May 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.01.044 Copyright © 2015 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier curves for the (A) complete patient cohort; (B) patients who have aneurysm; (C) patients who have acute dissection; (D) freedom from aortic reoperations, complete patient cohort. ET, Elephant trunk; FET, frozen elephant trunk. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2015 149, 1286-1293DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.01.044) Copyright © 2015 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions