Acute type B aortic dissection: Surgical therapy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Lansman, Steven L ^a   Hagl, Christian ^a   Fink, Daniel ^a   Galla, Jan D ^a   Spielvogel, David ^a   Ergin, M Arisan ^a   Griep, Randall B ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; BREATHING DISORDER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; PAIN; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036840557     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04134-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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