Fig. 3
From: Open aortic arch repair without circulatory arrest by frozen elephant trunk in Ishimaru zone 0
Schematic drawing depicting the completion phase of the operation: with the FET performed in zone 0, the fifth branch of the arterial line was connected to the lateral branch of the prosthesis (inflow 5). During anastomoses of the SAVs, systemic perfusion was continued through lines 1, 2, 3 and 5, after clamping the tubular vascular prosthesis, deflating the balloon, clamping inflow line 4 and removing the femoral cannula. Note that the native origins of all 3 SAVs are ligated. During weaning from CPB, the only line used is inflow 5