Clinical presentation is the main predictor of in-hospital death for patients with acute type a aortic dissection admitted for surgical treatment: A 25 years experience

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-311

  Santini, Francesco ^a   Montalbano, Giuseppe ^a   Casali, Gianluca ^a   Messina, Antonio ^a   Iafrancesco, Mauro ^a   Battista Luciani, Giovanni ^a   Rossi, Andrea ^a   Mazzucco, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aorta; Mortality; Risk factors; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY DISEASE; MESENTERY ISCHEMIA; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33846666912     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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