Optimal Strategy for Repair of Type A Acute Aortic Dissection

Launched by CENTRE CARDIOLOGIQUE DU NORD · Jun 20, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

The target population enrolled in the registry includes patients with TAAAD.The high volume of patients that will be enrolled in this registry will receive proximal and distal aortic repair in elective, urgent or emergency clinical condition. Efforts of investigators will be concentrated in TAAAD repair using a conservative approach of root preservation and hemiarch reconstruction in the majority of patients who will be referred in critical clinical condition. High-risk patients with older age or more comorbidities had more conservative repairs to limit surgical insult to these complicated ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • TAAD or intramural hematoma involving the ascending aorta
• • Patients aged \> 18 years
• • Symptoms started within 7 days from surgery
• • Primary surgical repair of acute TAAD
• • Any other major cardiac surgical procedure concomitant with surgery for TAAD.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients aged \< 18 years
• • Onset of symptoms \> 7 days from surgery
• • Prior procedure for TAAD
• • Concomitant endocarditis;
• • TAAD secondary to blunt or penetrating chest trauma.