Emergency surgical management of acute aortic dissection: Role of transesophageal echocardiography

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1137-1141

  Mastrogiovanni, Generoso ^a,b   Masiello, Paolo ^a   Leone, Rocco ^a   Iesu, Severino ^a   Di Benedetto, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona   (Italy)

^b S Giovanni di dio e Ruggi d'Aragona Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Cardiac surgery; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032702432     PISSN: 00465968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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