Single-stage repair of extensive thoracic aortic aneurysms: Experience with the arch-first technique and bilateral anterior thoracotomy

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 669-676

  Kouchoukos, Nicholas T ^a,b   Mauney, Michael C ^a   Masetti, Paolo ^a   Castner, Catherine F ^a  

^a MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

18; 19; 26; 35

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCENDING AORTA; BILATERAL ANTERIOR THORACOTOMY; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCARDITIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REPERFUSION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6344265495     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.06.037     Document Type: Article

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