No increase in mortality after open infrarenal aortic surgery in the era of EVAR

International Journal of Angiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 116-119

  Akert, Andreas ^a   Zingg, Esther ^a   Schmidli, Jürg ^a   Heller, Georg ^a   Widmer, Matthias K ^a   Eigenmann, Verena ^a   Carrel, Thierry ^a   Savolainen, Hannu ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTISONE; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILEUS; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 19944417281     PISSN: 10611711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00547-004-1055-1     Document Type: Article

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