1. Impact of Surgical Stroke on the Early and Late Outcomes After Thoracic Aortic Operations 
Noritaka Okada, MD, Hideki Oshima, MD, PhD, Yuji Narita, MD, PhD, Tomonobu Abe, MD, PhD, Yoshimori Araki, MD, PhD, Masato Mutsuga, MD, PhD, Kazuro L. Fujimoto, MD, PhD, Yoshiyuki Tokuda, MD, PhD, Akihiko Usui, MD, PhD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 99, Issue 6, Pages (June 2015)
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2. Fig 1
A flow diagram of the study patients included for the quality of life analysis by the Short-Form 36 Health Survey Questionnaire. The numbers in parentheses indicate the patients with stroke in each group.
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3. Fig 2
The Kaplan-Meier estimates of the time to death in patients with (broken line) and without (solid line) permanent neurologic deficit (PND) after the operation.
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4. Fig 3
The rates of a low status on the Mental Component Summary (MCS <25%) and Physical Component Summary (PCS <25%) according to the quality of life analysis from the Short-Form 36 Health Survey Questionnaire between patients with (dark bars) and without (light bars) a permanent neurologic deficit (PND) at discharge.
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