Replacement of the ascending aorta with reduction of the diameter of the sinotubular junction to treat aortic insufficiency in patients with ascending aortic aneurysm

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 414-418

  David, Tirone E ^a   Feindel, Christopher M ^a   Armstrong, Susan ^a   Maganti, Manjula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE PROLAPSE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846345681     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.09.049     Document Type: Article

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