Surgery for acute type A aortic dissection: Is advanced age a contraindication?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 585-590

  Chiappini, Bruno ^a   Tan, M Erwin ^a   Morshuis, Wim ^a   Kelder, Hans ^a   Dossche, Karl ^a   Schepens, Marc ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLAMP; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242816002     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.01.027     Document Type: Article

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