Outcome and Quality of Life After Surgical and Endovascular Treatment of Descending Aortic Lesions

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1605-1612

  Dick, Florian ^a   Hinder, Dominik ^a   Immer, Franz F ^a   Hirzel, Cédric ^a   Do, Dai Do ^a   Carrel, Thierry P ^a   Schmidli, Juerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; DESCENDING AORTIC LESION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC RUPTURE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 42949097701     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.027     Document Type: Article

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