Aortic dissection with aorto-left atrial fistula formation soon after aortic valve replacement: A lethal complication diagnosed by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1409-1411

  Patsouras, Dimitrios ^a   Argyri, Ourania ^b   Siminilakis, Stavros ^b   Michalis, Lambros ^b   Sideris, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART ATRIUM; METHODOLOGY; REOPERATION;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 0036827123     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.121609     Document Type: Article

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