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)

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) Martin Czerny (EACTS Chairperson)* and Jürg Schmidli (ESVS Chairperson) Writing Committee: Sabine Adler, Jos C. van den Berg, Luca Bertoglio, Thierry Carrel, Roberto Chiesa, Rachel E. Clough, Balthasar Eberle, Christian Etz, Martin Grabenwöger, Stephan Haulon, Heinz Jakob, Fabian A. Kari, Carlos A. Mestres, Davide Pacini, Timothy Resch, Bartosz Rylski, Florian Schoenhoff, Malakh Shrestha, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk, Konstantinos Tsagakis and Thomas R. Wyss

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