Prosthetic Replacement of the Ascending Aorta Increases Wall Tension in the Residual Aorta

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 954-957

  Scharfschwerdt, Michael ^a   Sievers, Hans H ^a   Greggersen, Johanna ^a   Hanke, Thorsten ^a   Misfeld, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; HEART SURGERY; MANOMETER; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ELASTICITY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SWINE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 33847345131     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.10.056     Document Type: Article

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