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Dr Anthony L. Estrera (Houston, Tex). I have nothing to disclose regarding this presentation. Congratulations, Dr Heo, on a nicely presented article. The authors previously demonstrated the unfavorable remodeling that has occurred when residual dissection involves the arch vessels after type A dissection repair after open conventional repair, basically hemiarch repair. Moving more distally, in this article they wanted to analyze the effect of the tear on dissection on longer-term outcomes with regard to type A dissection repair and performed and excluded all the patients who did not have total arch replacement.
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research