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The risk factors for postoperative SCI were analyzed. Results: The mean age of patients with acute aortic dissection was 57.1 years, and 29.4% were female. Four patients developed SCI. There were no significant differences in characteristics such as age and body mass index. The female gender was associated with most of the SCI cases in the univariate analysis (75%, p = 0.016). Known perioperative and intraoperative risk factors were not related to postoperative SCI in our study. Patients who developed SCI had increased serum postoperative creatinine levels (p = 0.03). Twenty-four patients showed complete false lumen thrombosis up to zones 3\u20134, five patients up to zones 5\u20136 and two patients up to zones 7\u20139, which correlates with the postoperative development of SCI (p = 0.02). The total number of patent intercostal arteries was significantly reduced postoperatively in SCI patients (p = 0.044). Conclusions: Postoperative acute kidney injury, the reduction in patent intercostal arteries after surgery and the extension of false lumen thrombosis up to and beyond zone 5 may play a significant role in the development of clinically relevant spinal cord injury after FET.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics12112781","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,15]],"date-time":"2022-11-15T02:31:15Z","timestamp":1668479475000},"page":"2781","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Analysis of Spinal Ischemia after Frozen Elephant Trunk for Acute Aortic Dissection: An Observational, Single-Center Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Frederico Lomonaco","family":"Cuellar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6322-7152","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexander","family":"Oberhuber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sven","family":"Martens","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0869-1630","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andreas","family":"Rukosujew","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2643-2621","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elena","family":"Marchiori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Abdulhakim","family":"Ibrahim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"107","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jtcvs.2005.09.015","article-title":"Should the \u201celephant trunk\u201d be skeletonized? 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