Standardizing clinical end points in aortic arch surgery: a consensus statement from the International Aortic Arch Surgery Study Group

Affiliation

• ¹ Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (T.D.Y., D.H.T., P.G.B.); Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (T.D.Y., P.G.B.); Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston (S.A.L., J.S.C.); Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (S.A.L., J.S.C.); Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (G.C.H., J.P.M.); Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (E.P.C.); Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (M.M., F.-W.M.); Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (R.B.G.); Cardiovascular Center, Hokkaido Ohno Hospital, Sapporo, Japan (T.K.); Section of Cardiac Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (J.A.E.); Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis (N.T.K.); Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (M.J.U.); Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK (A.O.); Thoracic Aortic Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (T.M.S.); Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (J.E.B.); Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy (R.D.B., M.D.E.); and Thoracic Aortic Research Center, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy (S.T.).