Survival and quality of life after repair of acute type A aortic dissection in patients aged 75 years and older justify intervention

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 386-391

  Santini, Francesco ^a   Montalbano, Giuseppe ^a   Messina, Antonio ^a   D'Onofrio, Augusto ^a   Casali, Gianluca ^a   Viscardi, Francesca ^a   Luciani, Giovanni Battista ^a   Mazzucco, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Elderly; Mortality; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSECTION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; WELLBEING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; EMERGENCIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32144433726     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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