Seven years' single center experience of Powerlink unibody bifurcated endograft for endovascular aortic aneurysm repair

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-19

  Qu, L ^a,b   Hetzel, G ^a   Raithel, Dieter ^a  

^a KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurys, abdominal; Endovascular surgical procedures; Stent

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; POLITEF;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; AORTA BIFURCATION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 33947207495     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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