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Objective analysis of midterm outcomes of conventional and hybrid aortic arch repair by propensity-score matching

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Submitted by

Claire Vernon

Source

Source Name: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Source URL: http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(17)30192-7/abstract

Author(s)

Arudo Hiraoka, Genta Chikazawa, Toshinori Totsugawa, Kentaro Tamura, Atsuhisa Ishida, Taichi Sakaguchi, Hidenori Yoshitaka

Hiraoka and colleagues compared outcomes of 337 patients receiving conventional total aortic arch repair to 58 patients receiving hybrid aortic arch repair at a single cardiovascular institution. The authors observed no differences in operative or 30-day death. Five-year survival rate was similar between the groups despite stroke occurring more frequently in the hybrid repair group.

Accompanying commentaries from Atkins and Szeto, and De Santo discuss the comparison of a standard technique to a one performed on a higher-risk population of patients:

Hybrid aortic arch surgery: Have we reached clinical equipoise? Marvin D. Atkins, Wilson Y. Szeto.

Hybrid aortic arch repair: Facts and hints beyond the statistical truth. Luca Salvatore De Santo.