Endovascular Treatment of Type B Aortic Dissection: The Challenge of Late Success

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1360-1365

  Alves, Claudia Maria Rodrigues ^a,b   da Fonseca, José Honório Palma ^a,b   de Souza, José Augusto Marcondes ^a,b   Kim, Hyung Chun ^a,b   Esher, Guilherme ^a,b   Buffolo, Ênio ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital do Coracao   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64649095579     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.02.050     Document Type: Article

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