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| Years | Gender | Age | AA disease | Basic disease | Surgical history | Complication | Postoperative medication | Postoperative survival time and cause of death | Autopsy |
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| 2023 | F | 52 | AAPs | Ascending aorta and a bicuspid aortic valve with moderate mixed aortic valve disease | Bentall’s procedure using a 27-mm biointegral valve aortic bioconduit and mitral valve annuloplasty | Wound bleeding, hemoptysis, dizziness and empyema | Red blood cell transfusions and iron infusions/long-term antibiotics | 7 m/the patient subsequently made the decision not to proceed with any further surgery and declined antibiotic therapy and died 7 months after the first endovascular stent graft procedure | No autopsy was conducted |
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| 2021 | F | 57 | PAUs | Chronic rheumatic heart disease/ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm fistula | Mitral valve replacement surgery, open surgery using patches due to ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm | None | Aspirin
Warfarin | 6 m/the patient remained asymptomatic after discharge until 6 months when she died of a possible cardiogenic stroke after discontinuing anticoagulants | No autopsy was conducted |
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| 2018 | M | 56 | AA rupture | Marfan syndrome/acute respiratory failure | Surgical history of open total arch replacement and “whole block” island reimplantation of supraaortic vessels, descending TEVAR, two remedian sternotomy to repair false aneurysms, and chest anterior transposition flap | Multiple drug resistance pneumonia | NR | 32 d/died of multiple drug resistance pneumonia 32 days after operation | No autopsy was conducted |
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| 2018 | F | 74 | AAPs | None | None | None | Metoprolol
Furosemide
Lisinopril | 3 m/4.0 cm long longitudinal tear at the minor curvature of the aorta leading to pericardial hemorrhage | The autopsy confirmed that the cause of death was pericardial hematocele, which was a longitudinal tear 4.0 centimeters long at the small curvature of the ascending aorta without any associated dissection |
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| 2014 | M | NR | AAPs | None | NR | NR | NR | 14 d/sudden respiratory distress and ventricular fibrillation | No autopsy was conducted |
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| 2013 | M | 67 | AAPs | None | Ascending aorta replacement, thoracic descending aorta covered stent implantation | Left hemisphere stroke, splenic infarction | Clopidogrel
Aspirin | 6 m/sudden death before follow-up CT; no autopsy was conducted | No autopsy was conducted |
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| 2011 | M | 74 | AAPs | Myocardial infarct/severe COPD/severe addiction to smoking | None | Rupture of left ventricular wall | NR | 1 d/multiple organ failure within 24 hours | No autopsy was conducted |
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| 2007 | F | 82 | AAPs | Chronic congestive heart failure | Emergency repair of acute ascending aortic dissection | Multiple organ failure | NR | 15 d/on the 15th day after surgery, the patient developed an acute brainstem stroke and died | Autopsy confirmed that the covered stent was not displaced, and the coronary artery orifice and brachiocephalic artery were unobstructed |
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