welcomes you to the new, improved website!The Yale group retrospectively reviewed their experience with DeBakey type I aortic dissections to evaluate whether patients with bovine aortic arches had a unique distribution of entry sites and differential outcomes. A total of 315 patients were included in the study, of which 49 (16%) had a bovine aortic arch. The authors found that those patients with bovine aortic arches were 6 times more likely to have arch tears and 2.7 times more likely to suffer a stroke as those without bovine aortic arches.
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In DeBakey Type I Aortic Dissection, Bovine Aortic Arch Is Associated With Arch Tears and Stroke
Submitted by: Arie Blitz
Source: Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Author(s): Julia Dumfarth, MD, PhD, Sven Peterss, MD, Markus Kofler, MD, Michaela Plaikner, MD, Bulat A. Ziganshin, MD, Thomas Schachner, MD, Maryann Tranquilli, RN, Michael Grimm, MD, John A. Elefteriades, MD
