Should emergency surgical intervention be performed for an octogenarian with type A acute aortic dissection?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1042-1046

  Hata, Mitsumasa ^a   Sezai, Akira ^a   Niino, Tetsuya ^a   Yoda, Masataka ^a   Unosawa, Satoshi ^a   Furukawa, Nobuyuki ^a   Osaka, Shunji ^a   Murakami, Tomohiko ^a   Minami, Kazutomo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENILITY; STROKE; SURVIVAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 42949144524     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.08.078     Document Type: Article

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