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We aim to provide personalized risk stratification for such patients based on sex, age, body surface area and aneurysm location (root versus ascending).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Root and ascending diameters, and adverse aortic events (dissection, rupture, death) of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm patients were analysed. Aortic diameter was placed in context vis-a-vis the normal distribution in the general population with similar sex, age and body surface area, by conversion to z scores. These were correlated of major adverse aortic events, producing risk curves with \u2018hinge points\u2019 of steep risk, constructed separately for the aortic root and mid-ascending aorta.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A total of 1162 patients were included. Risk curves unveiled generalized thresholds of z\u2009=\u20094 for the aortic root and z\u2009=\u20095 for the mid-ascending aorta. These correspond to individualized thresholds of less than the standard criterion of 5.5\u2009cm in the vast majority of patients. Indicative results include a 75-year-old typical male with 2.1\u2009m2 body surface area, who was found to be at increased risk of adverse events if root diameter exceeds 5.15\u2009cm, or mid ascending exceeds 5.27\u2009cm. An automated calculator is presented, which identifies patients at high risk of adverse events based on sex, age, height, weight, and root and ascending size.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This analysis exploits a large sample of aneurysmal patients, demographic features of the general population, pre-dissection diameter, discrimination of root and supracoronary segments, and statistical tools to extract thresholds of increased risk tailor-made for each patient.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ejcts\/ezae162","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,18]],"date-time":"2024-04-18T02:10:57Z","timestamp":1713406257000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Patient-specific ascending aortic intervention criteria"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"65","author":[{"given":"Paris 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