Repair of an acute type A aortic dissection combined with an emergency cesarean section in a pregnant woman

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 938-940

  Shihata, Mohammad ^a   Pretorius, Victor ^a   MacArthur, Roderick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Hypothermic circulatory arrest; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53349098174     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.182766     Document Type: Article

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