Thoracic endovascular aortic repair: impact of urgency on outcome and quality of life

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-103

  Dick, Florian ^a,b   Hinder, Dominik ^a   Immer, Franz F ^a   Savolainen, Hannu ^a   Do, Dai Do ^a   Carrel, Thierry P ^a   Schmidli, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Descending aorta; Endovascular repair; Outcome; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; DESCENDING AORTA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EMERGENCIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57649134514     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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