Endoluminal graft therapy for the treatment of an aorto-bronchial fistula: Mid-term follow-up

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 530-532

  Kpodonu, Jacques ^a,c   Rodriguez Lopez, Julio A ^b   Ramaiah, Venkatesh G ^b   Diethrich, Edward B ^b  

^a ARIZONA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Arizona Heart Hospital   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANOMALY; AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; THORACOTOMY; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 50049125281     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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