Emergency operation for acute type A aortic dissection: Neurologic complications and early mortality

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 33-38

  Sinatra, Riccardo ^a   Melina, Giovanni ^a   Pulitani, Ivana ^a   Fiorani, Brenno ^a   Ruvolo, Giovanni ^a   Marino, Benedetto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035137007     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01824-5     Document Type: Article

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