Endovascular stent grafting versus open surgical operation in patients with infrarenal aortic aneurysms: A propensity score-adjusted analysis

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 782-787

  Teufelsbauer, Harald ^a   Prusa, Alexander M ^a   Wolff, Klaus ^a   Polterauer, Peter ^a   Nanobashvili, Josif ^a   Prager, Manfred ^a   Hölzenbein, Thomas ^a   Thurnher, Siegfried ^a   Lammer, Johannes ^a   Schemper, Michael ^a   Kretschmer, Georg ^a   Huk, Ihor ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aorta aneurysm; Atents; Mortality; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HAZARD; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MODEL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIETY; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0037072459     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000028603.73287.7D     Document Type: Article

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