Optimization of Aortic Arch Replacement: Two-Stage Approach

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Safi, Hazim J ^a   Miller III, Charles C ^a   Estrera, Anthony L ^a   Villa, Martin A ^a   Goodrick, Jennifer S ^a   Porat, Eyal ^a   Azizzadeh, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPARESIS; PARAPLEGIA;

EID: 33846378782     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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