Unsupported Reduction Ascending Aortoplasty: Fate of Diameter and of Windkessel Function

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1047-1053

  Walker, Tobias ^a   Bail, Dorothee H L ^a   Gruler, Miriam ^a   Vonthein, Reinhard ^a   Steger, Volker ^a   Ziemer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA WALL; AORTOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COUNTERPULSATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; COMPLIANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VASODILATION;

EID: 33847299462     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.10.022     Document Type: Article

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