Reduction Ascending Aortoplasty: Midterm Follow-Up and Predictors of Redilatation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 586-591

  Polvani, Gianluca ^a   Barili, Fabio ^a   Dainese, Luca ^a   Topkara, Veli K ^b   Cheema, Faisal H ^b   Penza, Eleonora ^a   Ferrarese, Sandro ^c   Parolari, Alessandro ^a   Alamanni, Francesco ^a   Biglioli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTOPLASTY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION;

EID: 33746036069     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.025     Document Type: Article

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