Optimal Strategy for Repair of Type A Acute Aortic Dissection (TARAD)

Searching Optimal Tailored Strategy for Repair of Acute Type A Acute Aortic Dissection

Acute type A aortic dissection (TAAD) persists as a clinicopathologic entity with high lethality in the current era. Several procedures are presently used to repair the TAAAD. The objective of this study is to analyze two groups of individuals using a conservative approach through root-sparing and hemiarch techniques in patients who are hospitalized in higher-risk clinical conditions or more aggressive procedures such as root replacement and total arch replacement in low-risk patients.

Study Overview

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Conditions: Aortic Dissection
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Conservative TAAAD-R; Procedure: Extensive TAAAD-R

Detailed Description

The target population enrolled in the registry includes patients with TAAAD.The high volume of patients that will be enrolled in this registry will receive proximal and distal aortic repair in elective, urgent or emergency clinical condition. Efforts of investigators will be concentrated in TAAAD repair using a conservative approach of root preservation and hemiarch reconstruction in the majority of patients who will be referred in critical clinical condition. High-risk patients with older age or more comorbidities had more conservative repairs to limit surgical insult to these complicated patients. Total arch reconstruction and root replacement will be optional procedures for specific subgroups of patients who may benefit from a more complex index finger operation without incurring additional immediate risk.

Investigators hope to demonstrate a reduction in operative mortality and an improvement in early and late outcomes. The experience of investigators will be summarized in an algorithm for TAAAD repair with an analysis of early morbidity and mortality, as well as late survival and no reoperation.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 900
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Saint-Denis, France, 93200
    • Francesco Nappi

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Study Population

The TARAD study is a prospective multicenter registry including patients who underwent surgery for acute TAAAD at 5 centers of cardiac surgery located in 2 European countries and Japan (2 France, 2 Italy and 1 Hokkaido ). Data will be prospectively collected fron patients (conservative vs estensive TAAAD-R) treated during the study period and the aim will be to gather further data for future clinical research on this topic. Preoperative and postoperative variables will be included during in-hospital stay and follow-up data instead they will be included on subsequent encounters for all other patients who will be hospitalized. Data on consecutive patients with acute TAAAD will be collected with pre-specified baseline, operative and outcome variables.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• TAAD or intramural hematoma involving the ascending aorta
• Patients aged > 18 years
• Symptoms started within 7 days from surgery
• Primary surgical repair of acute TAAD
• Any other major cardiac surgical procedure concomitant with surgery for TAAD.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged < 18 years
• Onset of symptoms > 7 days from surgery
• Prior procedure for TAAD
• Concomitant endocarditis;
• TAAD secondary to blunt or penetrating chest trauma.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Conservative Type A Acute Aortic Dissection Repair (TAAAD-R); All conservative TAAAD-R will be performed through a median sternotomy. The conservative TAAAD-R will include patients receiving valve-sparing root procedures and recipients of ascending aortic root sparing replacement if the intima separation extended into the sinuses resulting in commissural collapse.When necessary, the hemiarch technique will be used with a limited extension of the conservative procedure by resection of all the aortic tissue up to the left common carotid artery and which will be dictated according to the presentation of the lesion.	Procedure: Conservative TAAAD-R; Cardiac arrest will be ensured using antegrade potassium-rich cardioplegia solution delivered directly into the coronary ostium or after coronary sinus cannula insertion, in patients with aortic regurgitation aorta will be resected down to the sinotubular junction and the thrombus located in the false lumen of the aortic root will be removed so that the aortic lesion could be visualized. The commissures will be resuspended using 4-0 or 5-0 sutures reinforced with a Teflon pledget over each commissure. A 4-0 or 5-0 polypropylene suture will be chosen to seal the proximal anastomosis and this suture line will also be used to secure the intima to the adventitia. In patients revealing normal-sized aortic roots associated with poor-quality valve leaflets, concomitant aortic valve replacement with conventional xenograft or mechanical prosthesis will be preferred.; Other Names: Ascending aortic root sparing replacement with or without hemiarch repair; Procedure: Extensive TAAAD-R; Patients who experienced dilatation of the sinuses of Valsalva >4.5 cm in diameter on computed tomography imaging, those with connective tissue disease, or those in whom intimal tears extended into the sinuses, will undergoing replacement of the aortic root using a biologic or mechanical composite valve graft or valve-sparing root reimplantation procedure.Total arch replacement procedures (TARP) will fulfilled with the use of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and with either antegrade or retrograde cerebral perfusion, maintaining systemic cooling between 19°C to 25°C and depending on the surgeon's practice.TARPs will be carried out using 1- and 4-branch grafts and involved the resection of all the aortic tissue up to the left common carotid artery (total hemiarch) or reimplantation of the innominate trunk only (partial hemiarch).; Other Names: Aortic root procedures.TARP procedures
Other: Extensive Type A Acute Aortic Dissection Repair (TAAAD-R); All extensive TAAAD-R will be performed through a median sternotomy.The extensive TAAAD-R will include patients receiving replacement of the aortic root and total arch replacement procedures (TARP)	Procedure: Conservative TAAAD-R; Cardiac arrest will be ensured using antegrade potassium-rich cardioplegia solution delivered directly into the coronary ostium or after coronary sinus cannula insertion, in patients with aortic regurgitation aorta will be resected down to the sinotubular junction and the thrombus located in the false lumen of the aortic root will be removed so that the aortic lesion could be visualized. The commissures will be resuspended using 4-0 or 5-0 sutures reinforced with a Teflon pledget over each commissure. A 4-0 or 5-0 polypropylene suture will be chosen to seal the proximal anastomosis and this suture line will also be used to secure the intima to the adventitia. In patients revealing normal-sized aortic roots associated with poor-quality valve leaflets, concomitant aortic valve replacement with conventional xenograft or mechanical prosthesis will be preferred.; Other Names: Ascending aortic root sparing replacement with or without hemiarch repair; Procedure: Extensive TAAAD-R; Patients who experienced dilatation of the sinuses of Valsalva >4.5 cm in diameter on computed tomography imaging, those with connective tissue disease, or those in whom intimal tears extended into the sinuses, will undergoing replacement of the aortic root using a biologic or mechanical composite valve graft or valve-sparing root reimplantation procedure.Total arch replacement procedures (TARP) will fulfilled with the use of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and with either antegrade or retrograde cerebral perfusion, maintaining systemic cooling between 19°C to 25°C and depending on the surgeon's practice.TARPs will be carried out using 1- and 4-branch grafts and involved the resection of all the aortic tissue up to the left common carotid artery (total hemiarch) or reimplantation of the innominate trunk only (partial hemiarch).; Other Names: Aortic root procedures.TARP procedures

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Operative Mortality (OM)	Patients who died within 30 days	30-day
Rate of Transient Neurologic Deficit (TND)	Number of participants who will complicate postoperatively with episode of TND which will include complication rate such as confusion, delirium, agitation	30-day
Rate of permanent Neurologic Deficit (PND)	Number of participants with acute episode of a focal or global neurological deficit. Rates of alteration of degree of consciousness, hemiplegia, hemiparesis, numbness or sensory loss affecting one side of the body, dysphasia or aphasia, hemianopsia, amaurosis fugax. To consider rate of other neurologic signs or symptoms consistent with stroke duration of focal or global neurologic deficit greater than 24 hours.	30-day

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Rate of perioperative Myocardial Infarction (MI)	Number of participants with MI based on fourth universal definition.	30-day
Rate of spinal Cord Injury (SCI)	Number of participants with SCI intended as rate of paraplegia and/or paraparesis	30-day
Rate of composite of Major Adverse Events (MAE)	Number of participants with MAE which will include the composite rate of myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, need for dialysis, or need for tracheostomy according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v4.0 (CTCAE)	30-day
Rate of composite of Major Adverse Pulmonary Events (MAPE)	Number of participants with MAPE which will include the composite rate of intubation >48 hours, pneumonia, reintubation, tracheostomy according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v4.0 (CTCAE)	30-day
Rate of reintervention	The number of participants who will require reoperation for the aortic valve, proximal aorta, or distal aorta.	10 years
Late survival	The secondary endpoint of the study is the evaluation of late survival	10 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Cardiologique du Nord
• Collaborators: Universita degli Studi di Genova; Henri Mondor University Hospital; Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital; Ospedale San Camillo, Rome, Italy
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Francesco Nappi, Cardiac Surgery Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Benedetto U, Dimagli A, Kaura A, Sinha S, Mariscalco G, Krasopoulos G, Moorjani N, Field M, Uday T, Kendal S, Cooper G, Uppal R, Bilal H, Mascaro J, Goodwin A, Angelini G, Tsang G, Akowuah E. Determinants of outcomes following surgery for type A acute aortic dissection: the UK National Adult Cardiac Surgical Audit. Eur Heart J. 2021 Dec 28;43(1):44-52. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab586.
• Geirsson A, Shioda K, Olsson C, Ahlsson A, Gunn J, Hansson EC, Hjortdal V, Jeppsson A, Mennander A, Wickbom A, Zindovic I, Gudbjartsson T. Differential outcomes of open and clamp-on distal anastomosis techniques in acute type A aortic dissection. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 May;157(5):1750-1758. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.09.020. Epub 2018 Sep 29.
• Harris KM, Nienaber CA, Peterson MD, Woznicki EM, Braverman AC, Trimarchi S, Myrmel T, Pyeritz R, Hutchison S, Strauss C, Ehrlich MP, Gleason TG, Korach A, Montgomery DG, Isselbacher EM, Eagle KA. Early Mortality in Type A Acute Aortic Dissection: Insights From the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection. JAMA Cardiol. 2022 Oct 1;7(10):1009-1015. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2022.2718.
• Czerny M, Schoenhoff F, Etz C, Englberger L, Khaladj N, Zierer A, Weigang E, Hoffmann I, Blettner M, Carrel TP. The Impact of Pre-Operative Malperfusion on Outcome in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Results From the GERAADA Registry. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Jun 23;65(24):2628-2635. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.04.030.
• O'Hara D, McLarty A, Sun E, Itagaki S, Tannous H, Chu D, Egorova N, Chikwe J. Type-A Aortic Dissection and Cerebral Perfusion: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database Analysis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Nov;110(5):1461-1467. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.144. Epub 2020 Jun 26.
• Biancari F, Juvonen T, Fiore A, Perrotti A, Herve A, Touma J, Pettinari M, Peterss S, Buech J, Dell'Aquila AM, Wisniewski K, Rukosujew A, Demal T, Conradi L, Pol M, Kacer P, Onorati F, Rossetti C, Vendramin I, Piani D, Rinaldi M, Ferrante L, Quintana E, Pruna-Guillen R, Rodriguez Lega J, Pinto AG, Acharya M, El-Dean Z, Field M, Harky A, Nappi F, Gerelli S, Di Perna D, Gatti G, Mazzaro E, Rosato S, Raivio P, Jormalainen M, Mariscalco G. Current Outcome after Surgery for Type A Aortic Dissection. Ann Surg. 2023 Oct 1;278(4):e885-e892. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005840. Epub 2023 Mar 13.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 30, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 28, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 20, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): June 22, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 19, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 16, 2026
• Last Verified: May 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Frozen Elephant Trunk (FET); Ascending Aorta Replacement; Type A Acute Aortic Dissection (TAAAD); Root-Sparing Replacement; Hemiarch Procedures; Total Arch Replacement (TARP)
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Dissection, Blood Vessel; Acute Aortic Syndrome; Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Aortic Diseases; Aneurysm; Aortic Dissection
• Other Study ID Numbers: CN-202201173-1 (Registry Identifier: TAAD)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No