Endovascular stent-graft placement for complications of acute type B aortic dissection

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 477-483

  Eggebrecht, Holger ^a,c   Lönn, Lars ^b   Herold, Ulf ^a   Breuckmann, Frank ^a   Leyh, Rainer ^a   Jakob, Heinz G ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aorta; Dissection; Endovascular; Prognosis; Rupture; Stent

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RUPTURE; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INFARCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG ISCHEMIA; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27644563432     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hco.0000181481.86025.a6     Document Type: Review

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