Screening, diagnosis and advances in aortic aneurysm surgery

Gerontology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 349-359

  Daly, Kevin J ^a   Torella, Francesco ^a   Ashleigh, Ray ^a   McCollum, Charles N ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aneurysm repair; Aortic aneurysm; Aortic aneurysm screening; Autologous transfusion; Blood transfusion strategies; Endovascular aneurysm repair; Endovascular stent grafting; Medical assessment, aneurysm surgery

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BISOPROLOL; METOPROLOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA RUPTURE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEATH; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMODILUTION; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; READING; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SCREENING TEST; STRESS; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 5644255559     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080172     Document Type: Review

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