Endovascular stent placement for acute type-B aortic dissection with malperfusion - An intentional surgical delay and a possible 'bridging therapy'

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 266-268

  Fujita, Wakako ^a   Daitoku, Kazuyuki ^a   Taniguchi, Satoshi ^a   Fukuda, Ikuo ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute aortic dissection; Organ ischemia; Small sized stent

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ACUTE TYPE B AORTA DISSECTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB PERFUSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THERAPY DELAY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REPERFUSION INJURY; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERA;

EID: 59449089792     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.191361     Document Type: Article

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