Outcomes after Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in the Medicare Population

The objective was to compare Medicare patients with pre-operative chronic kidney disease (CKD) to patients with normal renal function to determine differences in post-operative survival and complications.

Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - February 12, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Chase R. Brown, Zehang Chen, Fabliha Khurshan, Maximillian Kreibich, Joseph Bavaria, Peter Groeneveld, Nimesh Desai Source Type: research