Total arch replacement for thoracic aortic aneurysm via median sternotomy with or without left anterolateral thoracotomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1792-1796

  Ohata, Toshihiro ^a,b   Sakakibara, Tetsuo ^a   Takano, Hiroshi ^a   Ishizaka, Toru ^a  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA ARCH; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA WALL; AORTOFEMORAL BYPASS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCENDING AORTA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STERNUM; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0038312136     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04987-1     Document Type: Article

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