Surgery for Acute Type A Dissection With the Tear in the Descending Aorta Using a Stented Elephant Trunk Procedure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1177-1180

  Sun, LiZhong ^a   Qi, RuiDong ^b   Chang, Qian ^a   Zhu, JunMing ^a   Liu, YongMin ^a   Yu, ChunTao ^a   Zhang, HaiTao ^a   Lv, Bin ^a   Zheng, Jun ^a   Tian, LiangXin ^a   Lu, JinGuo ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Tianjin Chest Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TYPE A DISSECTION; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DISSECTION; ELEPHANT TRUNK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG ISCHEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STERNOTOMY; THROMBUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62949234149     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.042     Document Type: Article

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