The retroperitoneal approach combined with epidural anesthesia reduces morbidity in elective infrarenal aortic aneurysm repair

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-39

  Muehling, Bernd M ^a   Meierhenrich, Rainer ^a   Thiere, Matthias ^a   Bischoff, Gisela ^a   Oberhuber, Alexander ^a   Orend, Karl Heinz ^a   Sunder Plassmann, Ludger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Epidural anesthesia; Retroperitoneal approach

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CEFUROXIME;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ILEUS; IMPLANTATION; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INFRARENAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; REOPERATION; RETROPERITONEAL APPROACH; RETROPERITONEUM; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTICEMIA; SPLEEN RUPTURE; STOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSPERITONEAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149402037     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.190165     Document Type: Article

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