The high-risk surgery involved using tubes made from animal tissue A GRANDMA’s life was saved when doctors replaced her artery with a ‘frozen elephant trunk’ in a groundbreaking op. Jeanette, 70, was ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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, ...

An elephant trunk-shaped graft was inserted in the chest of a 47-year-old man from Manipur at a city hospital to replace a leaked pipe that provides oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the body. The ...

The disease is as complex as its surgical correction. And a frozen elephant trunk technique is what saved the day. Thirty-six-year-old Ramesh Babu was rushed to MIOT Hospitals with the weakest pulse, ...