A quantitative assessment of the impact of intercostal artery reimplantation on paralysis risk in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 529-538

  Acher, Charles W ^a   Wynn, Martha M ^a   Mell, Mathew W ^a   Tefera, Girma ^a   Hoch, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTITIS; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INDEX; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; REIMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARALYSIS; REPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC ARTERIES; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 55449133887     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318187a792     Document Type: Article

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