Type A Dissection Is a Total Aortic Catastrophe (STS/EACTS Joint Session)

Moderator(s)

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  Joseph Bavaria, MD, FACS, FRCS (Edin) ad hom

  Professor of Surgery
  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Cardiovascular S
  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  Disclosure(s): , Medtronic: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Abbott/St. Jude Medical: DSMB Chair (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Edwards Life Science: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); Terumo Aortic: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); W. L. Gore & Associates: Consultant (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing)
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  Davide Pacini, MD, PhD

  Chief of Cardiac Surgery
  S. Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna
  Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  Disclosure(s): Aortic Terumo: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Artivion: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)

Presentations:

• 1:15 PM – 1:22 PM PT

  Hemiarch (with AMDS) Is Best
  

  Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD – Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto
• 1:22 PM – 1:33 PM PT

  Reoperation after Ascyrus Medical Dissection Stent Implantation for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection
  

  Alex Nantsios, MD – University of Ottawa Heart Institute
• 1:33 PM – 1:40 PM PT

  Frozen Elephant Trunk is Best
  

  Konstantinos Tsagakis, MD, PhD – Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Hospital Essen, Germany
• 1:40 PM – 1:50 PM PT

  A Simplified Delivery Frozen Elephant Trunk technique to reduce circulatory arrest time in hybrid aortic arch surgery: early results in a cohort of 174 patients.
  

  Guillaume Guimbretiere, MD (he/him/his) – CHU NANTES
• 1:50 PM – 1:57 PM PT

  Zone 2 Arch with Sequential TEVAR Is Best
  

  Nimesh D. Desai, MD, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
• 1:57 PM – 2:15 PM PT

  Panel Discussion
  

  Anthony L. Estrera, MD (he/him/his) – McGovern Medical School University of Texas Health Sciences Center/ Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute

  T. Brett Reece, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – University of Colorado

  Bradley G. Leshnower, MD – Emory University School of Medicine