Staged endovascular stent grafts for concurrent mobile/ulcerated thrombi of thoracic and abdominal aorta causing recurrent spontaneous distal embolization

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 193-196

  Zhang, Wayne W ^a   Abou Zamzam, Ahmed M ^a   Hashisho, Mazen ^a   Killeen, J David ^a   Bianchi, Christian ^a   Teruya, Theodore H ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; LEG PAIN; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENT; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EMBOLISM; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECURRENCE; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 37549012229     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.07.050     Document Type: Article

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