To stent or not to stent aortic dissection: Good news for a chosen few, but who?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 431-432

  Nienaber, Christoph A ^a   Skriabina, Valeria ^a   Schareck, Wolfgang ^a   Ince, Hüseyin ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA PROSTHESIS; COMORBIDITY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONG TERM CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; STENTS;

EID: 14644417163     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi119     Document Type: Editorial

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