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С.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Panfilov</surname><given-names>D. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Панфилов Дмитрий Сергеевич, д-р мед. наук, старший научный сотрудник, отделение сердечно-сосудистой хирургии</p><p>634012, Томск, ул. Киевская, 111а</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dmitri S. Panfilov, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Senior Research Scientist</p><p>111a, Kievskaya str., Tomsk, 634012</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">pand2006@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-3802</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Саушкин</surname><given-names>В. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Saushkin</surname><given-names>V. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Саушкин Виктор Вячеславович, канд. мед. наук, старший научный сотрудник, лаборатория радионуклидных методов исследования</p><p>634012, Томск, ул. Киевская, 111а</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Viktor V. Saushkin, Cand. Sci. (Med.), Senior Research Scientist</p><p>111a, Kievskaya str., Tomsk, 634012</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">vitversus@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0835-022X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сондуев</surname><given-names>Э. Л.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sonduev</surname><given-names>E. L.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Сондуев Эрдэни Леонидович, сердечно-сосудистый хирург, отделение сердечно-сосудистой хирургии</p><p>634012, Томск, ул. Киевская, 111а</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Erdeni L. Sonduev, Cardiovascular Surgeon</p><p>111a, Kievskaya str., Tomsk, 634012</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">erdeniooo@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2799-3260</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сазонова</surname><given-names>С. И.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sazonova</surname><given-names>S. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Сазонова Светлана Ивановна, д-р мед. наук, ведущий научный сотрудник, лаборатория радионуклидных методов исследования</p><p>634012, Томск, ул. Киевская, 111а</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Svetlana I. Sazonova, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Senior Research Scientist</p><p>111a, Kievskaya str., Tomsk, 634012</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">sazonova_si@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-7737</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Козлов</surname><given-names>Б. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kozlov</surname><given-names>B. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Козлов Борис Николаевич, д-р мед. наук, заведующий отделением сердечно-сосудистой хирургии</p><p>634012, Томск, ул. Киевская, 111а</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Boris N. Kozlov, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery</p><p>111a, Kievskaya str., Tomsk, 634012</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">bnkozlov@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Научно-исследовательский институт кардиологии, Томский национальный исследовательский медицинский центр Российской академии наук</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Cardiology Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>20</day><month>10</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>37</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>108</fpage><lpage>113</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Панфилов Д.С., Саушкин В.В., Сондуев Э.Л., Сазонова С.И., Козлов Б.Н., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Панфилов Д.С., Саушкин В.В., Сондуев Э.Л., Сазонова С.И., Козлов Б.Н.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Panfilov D.S., Saushkin V.V., Sonduev E.L., Sazonova S.I., Kozlov B.N.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.sibjcem.ru/jour/article/view/1511">https://www.sibjcem.ru/jour/article/view/1511</self-uri><abstract><p>Введение. На современном этапе операции на грудной аорте позволили снизить заболеваемость и летальность. Тем не менее известно, что женщины находятся в зоне повышенного риска неблагоприятных исходов в послеоперационном периоде.Цель исследования: оценка и сопоставление ранних исходов у пациентов мужского и женского пола, перенесших открытое протезирование восходящей аорты.Материал и методы. С января 2013 по декабрь 2021 гг. по поводу несиндромных аневризм восходящей аорты были прооперированы 88 пациентов, среди которых было 54 (61,4%) мужчины и 34 (38,6%) женщины. Были проанализированы различия клинических исходов у мужчин и женщин.Результаты. Дооперационный нормализованный диаметр аорты, по данным компьютерно-томографической аортографии, был статистически значимо больше у женщин (2,9 [2,7; 3,2] см/м2) по сравнению (2,5 [2,3; 2,6] см/м2, p &lt; 0,001) с мужчинами. При этом различий по абсолютным значениям (51 [49; 53] мм против 52 [50; 53] мм, p = 0,356) выявлено не было. В раннем послеоперационном периоде не было отмечено статистически значимых различий по частоте неврологических, сердечных, легочных и почечных осложнений в обеих группах. Госпитальная летальность составила 1,9 и 5,9% (p = 0,307) у пациентов мужского и женского пола соответственно.Выводы. Операция на восходящей аорте по поводу аневризм характеризуется сопоставимыми ранними результатами для мужчин и женщин.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Introduction. According to recent data, thoracic aortic surgery have reduced morbidity and mortality, however, women are at increased postoperative risk of adverse outcomes. Our aim was to evaluate and compare early outcomes in male and female patients undergoing ascending aortic replacement.Methods. A total of 88 patients, consisting of 54 men (61.4%) and 34 women (38.6%) underwent ascending aortic surgery for non-syndromic aneurysms from January 2013 to December 2021. We analyzed clinical outcomes between males and females.Results. According to computed tomographic angiography, preoperative normalized aortic diameters were significantly larger in females (2.9 [2.7; 3.2] cm/m2) vs. (2.5 [2.3; 2.6] cm/m2, p &lt; 0.001) in males, without differences in absolute values (51 [49; 53] mm vs. 52 [50; 53] mm, p = 0.356). There were no significant differences in neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, and renal complications in both groups in the early postoperative period. In-hospital mortality was 1.9% and 5.9% (p = 0.307) in male and female patients, respectively.Conclusions. Ascending aortic surgery for aneurysms below 5.5 cm threshold has tolerable early outcomes both in men and women.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>восходящая аорта</kwd><kwd>аневризма</kwd><kwd>протезирование аорты</kwd><kwd>пол</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>ascending aortic</kwd><kwd>aneurysm</kwd><kwd>aortic replacement</kwd><kwd>gender</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда № 21-15-00160, https://rscf.ru/project/21-15-00160/</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="en">Informed consent was obtained from all patients. 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