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Table 1 Demographics and pre-operative patient characteristics

From: Aortic root surgery with the CARDIOROOT vascular graft: results of a prospective multicenter post-market surveillance study

Variable

Mean ± standard deviation (SD) or n/m (%)

Demographic variables

 Age (years), mean ± SD

58 ± 14

 BMI (kg/m2)

26.6 ± 3.4

 Gender (male), n/m (%)

41/52 (79)

Pre-operative clinical data

 Dyslipidemia, n/m (%)

15/52 (29)

 Hypertension, n/m (%)

41/52 (79)

 Diabetes, n/m (%)

0/52 (0)

 Creatinine (mg/dl), mean ± SD

0.9 ± 0.2

 Previous cardiac surgery, n/m (%)

4/52 (8)

 New York Health Association, NYHA, functional status >II, n/m (%)

3/52 (6)

 Heart failure, n/m (%)

8/52 (15)

Pre-operative cardiac characteristics

 Ejection fraction (%), mean ± SD

60 ± 10

 Bicuspid aortic valve, n/m (%)

5/52 (10)

 Valve stenosis, n/m (%)

10/52 (19)

 Valve regurgitation ≥ II, n/m (%)

10/52 (19)