Clinical and Anatomical Characteristics of Subtle-Discrete Dissection of the Ascending Aorta

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1314-1319

  Chirillo, Fabio ^a   Salvador, Loris ^a   Bacchion, Francesco ^a   Franceschini Grisolia, Enrico ^a   Valfrè, Carlo ^a   Olivari, Zoran ^a  

^a CA FONCELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34848860796     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.05.063     Document Type: Article

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