Surgery Versus Surveillance: A Quality-of-Life Analysis of Patients With Moderately Dilated Aortic Root or Ascending Aorta
In a multicentre, prospective, non-randomized comparison of patients with moderate ATAAs, surgical treatment was associated with improvement in mental components of QoL at 1 year compared to surveillance.
Authors
- Jehangir J. Appoo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4286-067X)
- John Bozinovski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-8059)
- Michael Chu
- Arminder S. Jassar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5412-3506)
- Nimesh D. Desai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4456-5674)
- Rony Atoui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8711-2109)
- Cristián Baeza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2001-332X)
- Anthony L. Estrera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6594-6647)
- Elaine Tseng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9053-9664)
- Kevin Lachapelle
- G. Chad Hughes
- Philippe Demers
- Himanshu J. Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7639-2416)
- H W Van Es
- Eric Herget
- George A. Wells
- François Dagenais
- Maral Ouzounian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4143-2198)
- Ismaı̈l El-Hamamsy
- Zlatko Pozeg
- Juan B Grau
- Puja Kachroo
- Richard Whitlock
- Ming Hao Guo
- William Brinkman
- Munir Boodhwani
Institutions
- Western University (CA)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Duke University (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- University Hospitals of Cleveland (US)
- Saint John Regional Hospital (CA)
- London Health Sciences Centre (CA)
- Toronto General Hospital (CA)
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (US)
- Health Sciences North (CA)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Valley Health System (US)
- Mount Sinai Hospital (US)
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (US)
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center (US)
- Heart Hospital Baylor Plano (US)
- Michigan Medicine (US)
- San Diego Cardiac Center (US)
- Duke University Hospital (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center (US)
- Baylor Scott & White Health (US)
- Université Laval (CA)
- McGill University (CA)
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf288
- Primary Topic
- Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00