Successful treatment of acute dissection of the donor aorta after orthotopic heart transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 701-704

  Korkut, Ali Kubilay ^a   Wellens, Francis ^a   Foubert, Luc ^a   Goethals, Marc ^a  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; ERGOTAMINE TARTRATE; FUROSEMIDE; LISINOPRIL; PREDNISONE;

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MIGRAINE; ORGAN DONOR; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037785160     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(02)01151-8     Document Type: Article

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