Long-term results of the open stent-grafting technique for extended aortic arch disease

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1261-1269

  Shimamura, Kazuo ^a   Kuratani, Toru ^a   Matsumiya, Goro ^a   Kato, Masaaki ^c   Shirakawa, Yukitoshi ^a   Takano, Hiroshi ^b   Ohta, Noriyuki ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CORONARY STENT; DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SPINE INJURY; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STERNUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44649132503     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.10.056     Document Type: Article

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