Emboli capture using the Embol-X intraaortic filter in cardiac surgery: A multicentered randomized trial of 1,289 patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 508-515

  Banbury, Michael K ^a   Kouchoukos, Nicholas T ^b   Allen, Keith B ^b   Slaughter, Mark S ^b   Weissman, Neil J ^b   Berry, Gerald J ^b   Horvath, Keith A ^b   Shumway, Sara J ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FILTER; FILTRATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; EMBOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MICROPORE FILTERS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042158363     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00530-7     Document Type: Article

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