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Despite this, data concerning impact factors of the postoperative outcome and especially investigations regarding sex-specific outcome parameters for minimally invasive aortic surgery are still lacking to date.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present a single-center analysis of 387 patients undergoing supracoronary ascending aorta replacement, Wheat procedure, David procedure, or Bentall procedure through a minimally invasive access. A multivariate linear model was developed to identify predicting factors for a prolonged intensive care unit stay. Subsequently, the impact of the patients sex on perioperative complications and outcome as well as short- and long-term survival was investigated using a propensity score matched analysis of each 118 women and men undergoing minimally invasive ascending aortic procedures.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Female sex, patients age at operation, and operation times were identified as independent patient-specific predictors for ICU length of stay after minimally invasive ascending aortic surgery. The perioperative stroke-rate was significantly higher in women compared to men (7.6% vs. 1.7%,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.031). Erythrocyte concentrate transfusion requirement was significantly higher in females (4 (IQR 2\u20135) vs. 2 (QR 0\u20134),\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001). No significant differences were found between male and female patients with respect to short- and long-term survival.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Sex impacts outcome after minimally invasive ascending aortic surgery. In particular, female patients had worse short-term outcome compared to men with respect to perioperative stroke, ICU length-of-stay, and transfusion requirements.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13019-026-04274-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,2]],"date-time":"2026-06-02T19:45:03Z","timestamp":1780429503000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Sex impacts outcome in minimally invasive surgery of the ascending aorta: a propensity score matched analysis"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Florian","family":"Helms","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Heike","family":"Kr\u00fcger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ezin","family":"Deniz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andreas","family":"Martens","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aron-Frederik","family":"Popov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bastian","family":"Schmack","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jan Dieter","family":"Schmitto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Weymann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Arjang","family":"Ruhparwar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Morsi","family":"Arar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"4274_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Helms F, Schmack B, Weymann A, Hanke JS, Natanov R, Martens A et al. 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