Surgical Management of Aortic Regurgitation Associated With Takayasu Arteritis and Other Forms of Aortitis Osamu Adachi, MD, Yoshikatsu Saiki, MD, Junetsu Akasaka, MD, Katsuhiko Oda, MD, Atsushi Iguchi, MD, Koichi Tabayashi, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 84, Issue 6, Pages 1950-1953 (December 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.025 Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Surgical outcomes for 15 patients with aortic regurgitation (AR) associated with aortitis. (AVR = aortic valve replacement.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 1950-1953DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.025) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Comparison of freedom from cardiovascular death or reoperation between the two groups. The aortic valve replacement (AVR) group (dashed line; n = 6) had significantly higher risk for those events compared with the aortic root replacement group (solid line) by logistic regression analysis (p < 0.01). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 1950-1953DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.025) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions