Chennai: Cardiologists at a city hospital conducted a rare surgery using a special technique — frozen elephant trunk— to treat a man from Myanmar, 55, who had a life threatening rupture in the aorta — ...

Pune: A private hospital based in the city recently performed a complex surgical procedure known as the frozen elephant trunk (FET). The procedure was carried out on a 55-year-old female patient to ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Phillip Lonergan has hiked the Himalayas, the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Rockies, but an aortic aneurysm — a potentially deadly bulge in the largest ...

Chennai: Doctors at Madras Medical Mission (MMM) successfully operated on a 55-year-old from Myanmar, who suffered from a large and extensive aortic aneurysm, by placing an endovascular stent ...

Mumbai: Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai Central successfully applied the ‘Frozen Elephant Trunk’ (FET) technique in treating a life-threatening aortic condition. Dr Gulshan Rohra, Cardiac Surgeon, ...

A GRANDMA's life was saved when doctors replaced her artery with a 'frozen elephant trunk' in a groundbreaking op. Jeanette, 70, was in desperate need of surgery, as her aorta - the body’s biggest ...

Grandmother Jeanette is in desperate need of heart surgery to save her life - but it comes with risks. Her aortic valve at the top of her heart is also leaking - a defect that can cause heart failure.

Doctors at a private hospital in Kochi have successfully performed a major and risky hybrid procedure using a frozen elephant trunk (FET) stent-graft to save the life of a 59-year-old patient ...

The FDA approved the Thoraflex Hybrid Frozen Elephant Trunk device for commercial sale in the U.S. for treatment of adults with complex aortic arch disease, according to an industry press release. The ...