Prognostic role of transesophageal echocardiography in acute type A aortic dissection

American Heart Journal

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1013-1020

  Bossone, Eduardo ^a   Evangelista, Arturo ^b   Isselbacher, Eric ^c   Trimarchi, Santi ^d   Hutchison, Stuart ^e   Gilon, Dan ^f   Llovet, Alfredo ^g   O'Gara, Patrick ^h   Cooper, Jeanna V ^c,i   Fang, Jianming ^c,i   Januzzi, James L ^c   Mehta, Rajendra H ^j   Distante, Alessandro ^a   Nienaber, Christoph A ^k   Eagle, Kim ^c,i   Armstrong, William F ^c,i  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Instituto Policlinico San Donato   (Italy)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^h BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFORMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIAORTIC HEMATOMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE RATE; REGISTER; RISK; SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34249714282     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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