Fatal complications after use of the symmetry aortic connector in coronary artery bypass surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1817-1819

  Lahtinen, Jarmo ^a   Biancari, Fausto ^a,b   Mosorin, Martti ^a   Heikkinen, Jouni ^a   Rainio, Pekka ^a   Juvonen, Tatu S ^a   Lepojärvi, Martti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

23

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART MASSAGE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STERNUM; SYMMETRY BYPASS SYSTEM AORTIC CONNECTOR;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 1942532753     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01291-8     Document Type: Article

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