Thoracic endovascular aortic repair completion following frozen elephant trunk: how it’s done and device selection

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Table 1 Overview of current literature of downstream endovascular repair following the frozen elephant trunk procedure.

Author, year	N	In-hospital mortality	Permanent SCI	Stroke
Kreibich et al., 2021 (13)	66	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Loschi et al., 2021 (26)	20	1 (5%)	1 (5%)	0 (0%)
Meisenbacher et al., 2021 (30)	20	1 (5%)	1 (5%)	2 (10%)
Haensig et al., 2020 (28)	10	1 (10%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Pan et al., 2017 (29)	23	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Laranjeira Santos et al., 2017 (27)	8	1 (12,5%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)

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