Successful Treatment of a Patient with a Severely Calcified Aorta by an Ascending Aorta to Iliac Artery Graft - A Case Report

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 306-309

  Rantner, B ^a   Fraedrich, G ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ascending aorta to iliac artery graft; Coral reef aorta

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORAL REEF AORTA; DESCENDING AORTA; ENDARTERECTOMY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC ARTERY; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; STENTS;

EID: 49349084340     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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