IMR Press / RCM / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2304140
Open Access Original Research
Immediate Recognition and Surgical Treatment of Iatrogenic Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Is Associated with Low Hospital Mortality and High Intermediate-Term Survival
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1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, 200032 Shanghai, China
2 Shanghai Municipal Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, 200032 Shanghai, China
*Correspondence: zscardiacs2016@163.com (Chunsheng Wang); zscardiacsurgery@163.com (Qiang Ji)
These authors contributed equally.
Academic Editors: Francesco Onorati and Igor Vendramin
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2022, 23(4), 140; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2304140
Submitted: 30 January 2022 | Revised: 20 March 2022 | Accepted: 22 March 2022 | Published: 12 April 2022
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: To investigate short- and intermediate-term outcomes of immediate (on table) recognition and surgical treatment of iatrogenic acute type A aortic dissection (ATAD) that occurred during the course of the cardiac surgical procedures. Methods: Of 23,143 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures at our institution from January 2016 to December 2020, 21 (0.09%) suffered from intraoperative iatrogenic ATAD and underwent immediate aortic repair. Their clinical characteristics, in-hospital outcomes and follow-up results were analyzed. Results: Among the 21 patients, 13 (61.9%) suffered from hypertension, and 14 (66.7%) had a dilated ascending aorta. In-hospital mortality was 9.5%, and new onset of permanent neurologic deficit was recorded in one patient. During a median follow-up of 36.0 months, all 18 follow-up patients survived without repeated surgeries. A follow-up computed tomography (CT) examination revealed a residual false lumen in the aortic arch in 3 patients and in the descending aorta in 8, with residual false lumen perfusion in one. Conclusions: Immediate recognition and surgical repair of ATAD that developed as a complication during cardiac surgical procedures are associated with low mortality and high intermediate-term survival.

Keywords
iatrogenic
acute type A aortic dissection
cardiac surgery
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