Epidemiology and Long-Term Prognostic Factors in Acute Type B Aortic Dissection

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 415-422

  Acosta, S ^a   Blomstrand, D ^a   Gottsater A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 34447125704     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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