Introduction: Arteriosclerosis of the ascending aorta is increasingly encountered in cardiac surgical patients as patients accepted for cardiac surgery get older. We evaluated the effect of introducing preoperative Chest CAT scan in the preoperative work-up for cardiac surgery concerning the change in strategy.
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