Improved clinical outcomes after operation of the proximal aorta: A 10- year experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1030-1037

  Shapira, Oz M ^a   Aldea, Gabriel S ^a   Cutter, Susan M ^a   Fitzgerald, Carmel A ^a   Lazar, Harold L ^a   Shemin, Richard J ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032942797     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00066-1     Document Type: Article

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