Covariate
AAG cohort N=63 ARR cohort N=53
P value
Age, years 61.1 ± 15.3 58.7 ± 15.6 0.415
Gender, male 40 (63.5) 37 (69.8) 0.473
BMI 27.4 ± 4.8 29.7 ± 7.5 0.104
Hypertension 41 (65.1) 34 (64.2) 0.917
Diabetes 1 (1.6) 7 (13.2) 0.014
Chronic kidney disease 1 (1.6) 3 (5.7) 0.231
Dyslipidaemia 22 (34.9) 20 (37.7) 0.753
CVA or TIA 3 (4.8) 6 (11.3) 0.188
Ex-smoker 24 (38.1) 16 (30.2) 0.372
Current Smoker 9 (14.3) 14 (26.4) 0.019
Connective tissue disease 2 (3.2) 4 (7.5) 0.289
Euroscore II 23.4 ± 14.2 21.9 ± 13.9 0.626
Previous cardiac surgery (%) 2 (3.2) 2 (3.8) 0.860
CPB time, minutes 160 ± 62 211 ± 128 0.011
Cross clamp time, minutes 101 ± 40 203 ± 23 <0.001
Circulatory arrest, minutes 25 ± 29 19 ± 23 0.256
Moderate/severe AR on TOE (%) 19 (30.2) 21 (39.6) 0.285