Research Article
Aortic Dissection Type A in Alpine Skiers
Table 2
Intraoperative and postoperative variables of 77 patients with aortic dissection type A in the winter season (from November to April).
| | | Nonskiers () | Skiers () | P value |
| | Aortic root replacement | 15 (25%) | 3 (17.6%) | 0.535 | | Cardiopulmonary bypass time (min) | 205 (109–423) | 201 (144–600) | 0.874 | | Crossclamp time (min) | 126 (45–288) | 129 (91–313) | 0.822 | | Hypothermic circulatory arrest | 56 (93.3%) | 16 (94.1%) | 0.357 | | Circulatory arrest time (min) | 40 (5–108) | 39 (8–83) | 0.630 | | Lowest body temperature (°C) | 18 (14–28) | 18.5 (16–32) | 0.694 | | Intensive care unit stay (day) | 5 (1–66) | 4.5 (1–54) | 0.360 | | Prolonged ventilation requiring tracheostomy | 4 (6.7%) | 0 (0%) | 0.232 | | Postoperative length of stay (days) | 15 (6–66) | 9 (5–25) | 0.033 | | Hospital mortality | 8 (13.3%) | 1 (5.9%) | 0.399 |
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