Current options and recommendations for the treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies involving the aortic arch: an expert consensus document of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic surgery (EACTS) and the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Freiburg, Germany.
• ² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ³ Department for Rheumatology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Department of Radiology, Centro Vascolare Ticino, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Department of Radiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Division of Vascular Surgery, "Vita salute" University, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
• ⁷ Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, UK.
• ⁸ Department for Anesthesiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Heart Center Hiertzing, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹¹ Aortic Center, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Université Paris Sud, Le Plessis-Robinson, France.
• ¹² West German Heart Center, Essen, Germany.
• ¹³ University Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Department of Vascular Surgery, Vascular Center Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardio-thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.