Surgery for Delay-recognized or Defer-operated Type A Aortic Dissection

From November 2004 to June 2020, there were more than 200 patients with acute TAAD patients who underwent aortic surgery at our hospital.Of all the patients in the study period, there were 34 patients (defined as study group) who sought for medical attention with symptoms for several days (median 5 days, range 3-7 days) or deferred aortic surgery several days later (median 3 days, range 2-7 days) even though acute TAAD was diagnosed on the same day when chest pain or back pain occurred. For reducing the selection bias, propensity score matching (PSM) was used to match the study group with the control group from all the patients treated at our hospital during the study period. Comparison between the two groups was performed.