Is Emergency Total Arch Replacement With a Modified Elephant Trunk Technique Justified for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1585-1591

  Watanuki, Hirotaka ^a   Ogino, Hitoshi ^a   Minatoya, Kenji ^a   Matsuda, Hitoshi ^a   Sasaki, Hiroaki ^a   Ando, Motomi ^b   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMATOSIS; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 35348897904     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.045     Document Type: Article

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