Bloodless surgery of acute type A aortic dissection in a Jehovah's witness patient

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1507-1510

  Pasic, Miralem ^a   Ruisz, Wolfgang ^a   Koster, Andreas ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANFORD TYPE A AORTIC DISSECTION; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25144490592     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.03.044     Document Type: Article

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