Coma might not preclude emergency operation in acute aortic dissection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1348-1351

  Pocar, Marco ^a,b   Passolunghi, Davide ^a   Moneta, Andrea ^a   Mattioli, Roberto ^a   Donatelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; COMA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33645344097     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.09.076     Document Type: Article

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