Descending aorta to carotid bypass for Takayasu arteritis as a redo operation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 283-285

  Shiiya, Norihiko ^a,b   Matsuzaki, Kenji ^a   Watanabe, Tohru ^a   Kuroda, Satoshi ^a   Yasuda, Keishu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0038337855     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00158-9     Document Type: Article

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