Rupture of chronic thoracic aortic dissection in a marfan syndrome patient after heart transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 610-611

  Varghese, Joji ^a   Gilani, Syed ^b   Arentzen, Carl ^a   Jennison, Stephen ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Prairie Heart Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SURGERY; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33646148259     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.12.008     Document Type: Letter

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