Quality & Outcomes: Complex Aortic Surgeries
Distribution of Complex Aortic Surgeries CY 2005 - FY 2010, N = 3135
| Year | Aortic Root | Ascending + Arch | TAAA | Descending Arch | Distal Arch/TAA | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 79 | 65 | 20 | 14 | 16 | 194 |
| 2002 | 79 | 68 | 28 | 28 | 7 | 210 |
| 2003 | 102 | 87 | 28 | 27 | 12 | 256 |
| 2004 | 138 | 93 | 19 | 52 | 19 | 321 |
| 2005 | 116 | 90 | 41 | 74 | 19 | 340 |
| 2006 | 117 | 80 | 24 | 89 | 37 | 347 |
| 2007 | 126 | 104 | 27 | 105 | 29 | 391 |
| 2008 | 119 | 108 | 22 | 74 | 18 | 341 |
| 2009 | 107 | 114 | 22 | 93 | 13 | 349 |
| 2010 | 129 | 152 | 23 | 72 | 10 | 386 |
An Alliance for Treating Complex Aortic Disease
For more than two decades, Penn’s cardiac and vascular surgery teams have enjoyed a robust and productive collaboration. To date, this unique partnership has resulted in:
- Improved outcomes for complicated Type B aortic dissections with malperfusion and rupture with one-year survival rates over 95 percent.
- An average of 50 to 75 open and hybrid thoracoabdominal procedures annually, a total unparalleled in the region for these surgeries.
- An average of more than 200 endovascular abdominal and thoracic aortic procedures annually. The program has performed hundreds of consecutive elective AAA endovascular repairs without mortality.
- More conventional open aortic aneurysm procedures for complex anatomic disease than any other institution in the region, with outcomes comparable to the best published in the literature.
Penn Heart & Vascular 2011 Clinical Activity Report
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