ICU controlled delay for acute type A aortic dissection repair after intervention for total visceral malperfusion: A way out of a dilemma?

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 298-300

  Tsagakis, Konstantinos ^a   Pizanis, N ^a   Kamler, M ^a   Konorza, T ^a   Zoepf, T ^a   Erbel, R ^a   Jakob, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic disease; Cardiovascular surgery; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROPOFOL;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ARTERY STENOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH II; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY OCCLUSION; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STENT; SYMPTOM; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPERFUSION INJURY; VISCERA;

EID: 50849141325     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1038512     Document Type: Article

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