Colleagues from five heart centers performed a study on the incidence and factors associated with acute stroke following type A repair using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (STS ACSD).
Among 7353 Acute type A repair performed at 772 centers between 2014 to 2017, operative mortality was 17% and incidence of postoperative stroke was 13%. Multivariate analysis showed that patients with axillary cannulation versus femoral (OR=0.60, P
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Factors Associated With Acute Stroke After Type A Aortic Dissection Repair: An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Adult Cardiac Surgery Database
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.06.016
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Author(s): Mehrdad Ghoreishi, Thoralf M. Sundt, Duke E. Cameron, Sari D. Holmes, Eric E. Roselli, Chetan Pasrija, James S. Gammie, Himanchu J. Patel, Joseph Bavaria, Lars G. Svensson, Bradley S. Taylor
