Changing surgical management for acute aortic dissections Type A improves immediate outcomes

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 223-228

  Sierra, Jorge ^a   Christenson, Jan T ^a   Kalangos, Afksendiyos ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 18744371865     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.200417.x     Document Type: Article

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