Clinical Characteristics, Management Patterns and Outcomes of Type A Aortic Dissection: A Sino-US Comparative Cohort Analysis

Clinical Characteristics, Management Patterns and Outcomes of Type A Aortic Dissection: A Sino-US Comparative Cohort Analysis

This study constructed a retrospective cohort study by retrospectively analyzing the data of all patients with aortic dissection from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2021 from the Cardiovascular Disease Registration System of Jiangsu Province in China and the data of similar diseases in recent years from National Inpatient Sample database in the United States

Inclusion Criteria:

1.Clinical diagnosis of type A Aortic Dissection

Exclusion Criteria:

1. age<18, age unknown,
2. diagnosis of aortic aneurysm, transfer out within 1 day,
3. unknown vital status at discharge;
4. unknown treatment type: cardioplegia, valve or cardiac repair only without aortic repair or two types of treatments on different days