Perioperative Management to Improve Neurologic Outcome in Thoracic or Thoracoabdominal Aortic Stent-Grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1679-1687

  Weigang, Ernst ^a   Hartert, Marc ^a   Siegenthaler, Michael P ^a   Beckmann, Nicholas A ^a   Sircar, Ronen ^a   Szabò, Gàbor ^b   Etz, Christian D ^c   Luehr, Maximilian ^a   von Samson, Patrick ^a   Beyersdorf, Friedhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACOABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DRAINAGE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD; STENTS;

EID: 33750060311     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.037     Document Type: Article

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