Single-stage reoperative repair of chronic type A aortic dissection using the arch-first technique

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Kouchoukos, Nicholas T ^a,b   Masetti, Paolo ^a   Rokkas, Chris K ^a   Murphy, Suzan F ^a  

^a MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STROKE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036839855     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04157-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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