Salvage periaortic pericardial baffle equalizes mortality in bleeding patients undergoing aortic surgery

Patients requiring salvage periaortic pericardial baffle for intractable intraoperative hemorrhage experienced an operative mortality similar to that in the remaining patients undergoing aortic surgery. Infectious endocarditis requiring root replacement or reoperative aortic surgery should alert the surgeon to the potential need for baffle placement, including prophylactic transverse sinus closure.