Smoking history increases the risk of long-term mortality after thoracic endovascular aortic repair in patients with an uncomplicated type B dissection.
CONCLUSIONS: A pre-operative smoking history increases long-term mortality rates after TEVAR in patients with uncomplicated type B dissections.
PMID: 31977549 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Chinese Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Authors: Gao HQ, Ren CW, Yang S, Huang LJ, Sun LZ, Xu SD Tags: Chin Med J (Engl) Source Type: research