Gender-related differences in acute aortic dissection

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 3014-3021

  Nienaber, Christoph A ^a   Fattori, Rossella ^b   Mehta, Rajendra H ^c   Richartz, Barbara M ^a   Evangelista, Arturo ^d   Petzsch, Michael ^a   Cooper, Jeanna V ^c   Januzzi, James L ^e   Ince, Hüseyin ^a   Sechtem, Udo ^f   Bossone, Eduardo ^g   Fang, Jianming ^c   Smith, Dean E ^c   Isselbacher, Eric M ^e   Pape, Linda A ^h   Eagle, Kim A ^c  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^g CNR   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Imaging; Registries; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIAORTIC HEMATOMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042618782     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000130644.78677.2C     Document Type: Article

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