ArticleJournal of cardiac surgery2021
Type A aortic syndromes in COVID-19 positive patients: Case series from a UK multicentre study.
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- Aortic dissection and Covid-19; a comprehensive systematic review.Current problems in cardiology · 2023Pooled it
- Cardiac surgery on patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.ANZ journal of surgery · 2022Pooled it
- Microvascular Dysfunction Following Cardioplegic Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Impacts of Diabetes and Hypertension.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Clinical Presentation and Emergency Department Management Checkpoints of Acute Aortic Syndromes during the First Two Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Understanding outcomes of emergency aortic dissection repair during COVID-19 pandemic: What lessons have we learnt?Journal of cardiac surgery · 2022Article
- Fatal association of COVID-19 and acute type A aortic dissection.Clinical case reports · 2022Article
- Type A aortic syndromes in COVID-19 positive patients: Case series from a UK multicentre study.Journal of cardiac surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) increases the respiratory complications and carries a higher mortality in the immediate postoperative period. The aim of this study was to analyze the outcomes of patients with type A acute aortic syndromes (AAS) diagnosed with COVID-19 in the perioperative period.
methodsRetrospective analysis of prospectively collected data between March and August 2020 from 20 participating cardiac surgery centers in the United Kingdom.
resultsAmong 122 patients who underwent emergency surgical repair for type A AAS at the participating centers, 3 patients (2.5%) tested positive for COVID-19 in the preoperative screeing, and 4 cases turned to be positive in the postoperative period having been operated on an unknown COVID-19 status. Another patient was diagnosed of COVID-19 disease based on radiological features. These eight patients had increased postoperative complications, including respiratory failure, longer ventilation times, and Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) stay and increased mortality when compared with COVID-19 negative patients.
conclusionCOVID-19 disease in the perioperative period of type A AAS poses a challenge. Despite the increasing morbidity and mortality associated with the virus, the prognosis of the aortic disease is poorer and emergency surgery should not be contraindicated based on the COVID-19 diagnosis alone.
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