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Table 1 Patient’s characteristics

From: Early and midterm results of frozen elephant trunk operation with Evita open stent-graft in patients with Marfan syndrome: results of a multicentre study

Parameters

N = 37

Demographics

Age, years

37.6 ± 11.19

Male gender

24 (64.9)

Aortic Disease

AAAD

10 (27.0)

ABAD

4 (10.8)

CAAD

14 (37.8)

CBAD

7 (18.9)

Aneurysm

2 (5.4)

Previous Surgery

Overall

29 (78.4)

Ascending aortic replacement

4 (13.8)

Bentall de Bono Procedure

20 (69.0)

David valve sparing procedure

3 (10.3)

Descending aortic replacement

4 (13.8)

TEVAR

1 (3.4)

Previous aortic interventions per patient

1.1 ± 0.44

Emergency surgery < 24 h

12 (32)

Penn Classification type A & B

Overall

N = 14

Class A

9 (64.3)

Class B

3 (21.4)

Class C

1 (7.1)

Class BC

1 (7.1)

  1. Continuous variables are reported as mean and standard deviation; categorical variables are reported as percentages. Data are presented as number (%) unless otherwise indicated
  2. AAAD acute type A aortic dissection; ABAD acute type B aortic dissection; CAAD chronic type A aortic dissection; CBAD chronic type B aortic dissection; TEVAR Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair
  3. Penn Classification: Class A—Absence of branch vessel malperfusion or circulatory collapse, Class B—Branch vessel malperfusion with ischemia, Class C—Circulatory collapse with or without cardiac involvement, Class BC—Branch vessel malperfusion and circulatory collapse