title: [Operative results and long-term prognosis of type A acute aortic dissection].
abstract: Between 1983 and 1997, we operated upon 91 patients with type A acute aortic dissection. The dissection was localized in 22 patients and extensive in 69 patients. All patients underwent graft replacement and 61 (67%) patients underwent simultaneous replacement of ascending aorta and total aortic arch. The hospital mortality rate were 9% for the localized dissection and 21% for the extensive dissection. The actuarial survival rates in patients with localized dissection at 5 and at 10 years was 91% and 76%, whereas those in patients with extensive dissection at 5 and at 10 years was 68% and 62%. The freedom from dissection related death or reoperation in operative survivors with localized dissection at 5 and at 10 years was 100% and 83%, whereas those in patients with extensive dissection at 5 and at 10 years was 78% and 56%. The simultaneous replacement of ascending aorta and total aortic arch in patients with extensive dissection was effective to obliteration of the distal false channel, although this extended procedure has to be carefully adopted in high risk patients with associated complications such as acute dissection organ ischemia.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamiya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Komatsu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ichimiya
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kazui
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000401:mortality*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis