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The prospective study included 45 patients with acute\/chronic aortic dissections. The patients were randomized into two groups. Group 1 patients (n = 19) were implanted with a hybrid graft E-vita open plus (E-vita OP). Group 2 (n = 26) included patients who received a MedEng graft. The inclusion criteria were type A and type B acute and chronic aortic dissection. The exclusion criteria were as follows: hyperacute aortic dissection (less than 24 h), organ malperfusion, oncology, severe heart failure, stroke, and acute myocardial infarction. The primary endpoint was early- and mid-term mortality. The secondary endpoints were postoperative complications (stroke and spinal cord ischemia, myocardial infarction, respiratory failure, acute renal injury, and re-operation for bleeding). Results. The rate of stroke and spinal cord ischemia in the E-vita OP vs. MedEng groups was 11% vs. 4% (p = 0.565) and 11% vs. 0% (p = 0.173), respectively. The respiratory failure rate was comparable in both groups (p &gt; 0.999). Acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis and the need for re-sternotomy in the MedEng group vs. E-vita OP group was 31% vs. 16% (p = 0.309) and 15% vs. none (p = 0.126), respectively. Early mortality in the MedEng and E-vita OP groups did not differ (8% vs. 0, p = 0.501). The mid-term survival in the analyzed groups was 79% vs. 61%, (p = 0.079), respectively. Conclusions. No statistically significant differences were observed between patients receiving frozen elephant trunk with the hybrid MedEng and E-vita OP grafts in regard to early mortality and morbidity. Mid-term survival was also non-significant between analyzed groups with a trend toward more favorable mortality in the MedEng group.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jpm13050784","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,1]],"date-time":"2023-05-01T13:54:46Z","timestamp":1682949286000},"page":"784","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Frozen Elephant Trunk for Aortic Dissection Using Different Hybrid Grafts: Preliminary Results from a Prospective Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0217-7737","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Boris","family":"Kozlov","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cardiology Research Institute\u2014Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution \u2018Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences\u2019, 634012 Tomsk, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2201-350X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dmitri","family":"Panfilov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cardiology Research Institute\u2014Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution \u2018Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences\u2019, 634012 Tomsk, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3411-508X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vitaliy","family":"Lukinov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"328","DOI":"10.21037\/acs.2018.05.05","article-title":"Open repair techniques in the aortic arch are still superior","volume":"7","author":"Bachet","year":"2018","journal-title":"Ann. 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