Why the study?
Aortic dissection is associated with high morbidity and mortality, but nationwide data on the hospital incidence and mortality rates of thoracic aortic dissection in Korea were needed.
Population
Adult patients newly diagnosed with thoracic AD from 2005 to 2016 in Korea
Comparison
TASR vs TBSR vs TEVAR vs medical management
Design
Nationwide population-based study
Authors
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Informs AD burden in Korea; extends Asian epidemiology while leaving open causal and interventional research.
A nationwide Korean study shows increasing incidence of thoracic aortic dissection over a decade, with unchanged overall mortality despite improvements in type A surgical repair outcomes.
Lee et al. (2020) studied this question.