Journal of Clinical Medicine (Nov 2022)

Outcome after Surgery for Iatrogenic Acute Type A Aortic Dissection

  • Fausto Biancari,
  • Matteo Pettinari,
  • Giovanni Mariscalco,
  • Caius Mustonen,
  • Francesco Nappi,
  • Joscha Buech,
  • Christian Hagl,
  • Antonio Fiore,
  • Joseph Touma,
  • Angelo M. Dell’Aquila,
  • Konrad Wisniewski,
  • Andreas Rukosujew,
  • Andrea Perrotti,
  • Amélie Hervé,
  • Till Demal,
  • Lenard Conradi,
  • Marek Pol,
  • Petr Kacer,
  • Francesco Onorati,
  • Cecilia Rossetti,
  • Igor Vendramin,
  • Daniela Piani,
  • Mauro Rinaldi,
  • Luisa Ferrante,
  • Eduard Quintana,
  • Robert Pruna-Guillen,
  • Javier Rodriguez Lega,
  • Angel G. Pinto,
  • Timo Mäkikallio,
  • Metesh Acharya,
  • Zein El-Dean,
  • Mark Field,
  • Amer Harky,
  • Sebastien Gerelli,
  • Dario Di Perna,
  • Mikko Jormalainen,
  • Giuseppe Gatti,
  • Enzo Mazzaro,
  • Tatu Juvonen,
  • Sven Peterss

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11226729
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 22
p. 6729

Abstract

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(1) Background: Acute Stanford type A aortic dissection (TAAD) may complicate the outcome of cardiovascular procedures. Data on the outcome after surgery for iatrogenic acute TAAD is scarce. (2) Methods: The European Registry of Type A Aortic Dissection (ERTAAD) is a multicenter, retrospective study including patients who underwent surgery for acute TAAD at 18 hospitals from eight European countries. The primary outcomes were in-hospital mortality and 5-year mortality. Twenty-seven secondary outcomes were evaluated. (3) Results: Out of 3902 consecutive patients who underwent surgery for acute TAAD, 103 (2.6%) had iatrogenic TAAD. Cardiac surgery (37.8%) and percutaneous coronary intervention (36.9%) were the most frequent causes leading to iatrogenic TAAD, followed by diagnostic coronary angiography (13.6%), transcatheter aortic valve replacement (10.7%) and peripheral endovascular procedure (1.0%). In hospital mortality was 20.5% after cardiac surgery, 31.6% after percutaneous coronary intervention, 42.9% after diagnostic coronary angiography, 45.5% after transcatheter aortic valve replacement and nihil after peripheral endovascular procedure (p = 0.092), with similar 5-year mortality between different subgroups of iatrogenic TAAD (p = 0.710). Among 102 propensity score matched pairs, in-hospital mortality was significantly higher among patients with iatrogenic TAAD (30.4% vs. 15.7%, p = 0.013) compared to those with spontaneous TAAD. This finding was likely related to higher risk of postoperative heart failure (35.3% vs. 10.8%, p p = 0.163). (4) Conclusions: Iatrogenic origin of acute TAAD is quite uncommon but carries a significantly increased risk of in-hospital mortality compared to spontaneous TAAD.

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