Risk Profile and Outcomes of Patients Requiring Coronary Revascularization as Concomitant Procedure to Repair of Type A Aortic Dissection

Background The present study aimed to report the early and late clinical outcomes of patients who underwent surgical repair for acute type A aortic dissection requiring concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and to explore potential risk factors associated with the need for this additional procedure. Methods Data were retrieved from the multicenter European Registry of Type A Aortic Dissection (ERTAAD). Bootstrapped least absolute shrinkage and selection operator logistic regression and multilevel multivariate logistic regression were performed for variable selection to identify predictors of hospital death, and logistic regression was used for the prediction of CABG. Results A total of 292 (8.04%) of 3633 patients required additional CABG. The in-hospital mortality rate was 33% for patients undergoing CABG vs 16% of non-CABG recipients ( P < .001; odds ratio [OR], 2.52; 95% CI, 1.93-3.35). Dissection of the aortic root involving the right coronary cusp ( P < .001; OR, 7.83; 95% CI, 5.55-11.0), a tear in the aortic root ( P = .002; OR, 2.08; 95% CI, 1.29-3.32), mitral valve insufficiency ( P = .034; OR, 1.33; 95% CI, 1.01-1.71), and a genetic syndrome ( P < .001; OR, 3.23; 95% CI, 1.66-5.99) independently predicted the need for CABG. Conclusions The need for additional CABG is not a rare occurrence during repair of type A aortic dissection and is associated with an increased mortality risk. Intimal tear localization and right coronary sinus dissection should be carefully examined in the preoperative image evaluation to stratify the risk of revascularization and plan the most appropriate approach.