Fausto Biancari, Angelo M Dell'Aquila, Francesco Onorati, Cecilia Rossetti, Till Demal, Andreas Rukosujew, Sven Peterss, Joscha Buech, Antonio Fiore, Thierry Folliguet, Andrea Perrotti, Amélie Hervé, Francesco Nappi, Lenard Conradi, Angel G Pinto, Javier Rodriguez Lega, Marek Pol, Petr Kacer, Konrad Wisniewski, Enzo Mazzaro, Giuseppe Gatti, Igor Vendramin, Daniela Piani, Luisa Ferrante, Mauro Rinaldi, Eduard Quintana, Robert Pruna-Guillen, Sebastien Gerelli, Dario Di Perna, Metesh Acharya, Giovanni Mariscalco, Mark Field, Manoj Kuduvalli, Matteo Pettinari, Stefano Rosato, Caius Mustonen, Tuomas Kiviniemi, Charles S Roberts, Timo Mäkikallio, Tatu Juvonen
Surgery for type A aortic dissection (TAAD) is associated with high risk of early mortality. The prognostic impact of a new classification of the urgency of the procedure was evaluated in this multicenter cohort study. Data on consecutive patients who underwent surgery for acute TAAD were retrospectively collected in the multicenter, retrospective European Registry of TAAD (ERTAAD). The rates of in-hospital mortality of 3902 consecutive patients increased along with the ERTAAD procedure urgency grades: urgent procedure, 10...
February 22, 2024: American Journal of Cardiology