Type B acute aortic dissection: Prognosis after initial conservative treatment and factors predictive of a complicated course;Akute aortendissektion typ B: Prognose nach initial konservativer behandlung und pradiktive faktoren fur einen komplizierten verlauf

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 127, Issue 36, 1997, Pages 1467-1473

  Carrel, T ^a   Nguyen, T ^a   Gysi, J ^a   Kipfer, B ^a   Sigurdsson, G ^a   Schaffner, T ^a   Schupbach P ^a   Althaus, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DESCENDING AORTA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARFAN SYNDROME; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRITICAL CARE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030868857     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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