Endoluminal Stent-Graft Repair of Aortobronchial Fistulas: Bridging or Definitive Long-term Solution?

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-48

  Böckler, Dittmar ^a,b   Schumacher, Hardy ^a   Schwarzbach, Matthias ^a   Ockert, Stefan ^a   Rotert, Harald ^a   Allenberg, Jens Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortobronchial fistula; Excluder Thoracic Endoprosthesis; Hemoptysis; Mortality; Outcome analysis; Stent graft repair; Talent Endoluminal Stent Graft; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS FISTULA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMOPTYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 1042279515     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/1545-1550(2004)011<0041:ESROAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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