Technical Considerations Using a Composite Graft for Aortic Root Replacement

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-292

  Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Narisawa, Takashi ^a   Mori, Takanobu ^a   Masuda, Mikio ^a   Kishi, Daijirou ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic root replacement; Composite graft; Hemostasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOPLEGIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MALE; REINFORCEMENT; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1542315261     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2689-x     Document Type: Article

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