Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair in patients with the highest risk and in-hospital mortality in the United States

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 520-524

  Timaran, Carlos H ^a,c   Veith, Frank J ^b   Rosero, Eric B ^a   Modrall, J Gregory ^a   Arko, Frank R ^a   Clagett, G Patrick ^a   Valentine, R James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATIFICATION; UNITED STATES; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250726580     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.6.520     Document Type: Article

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