Aortic size in acute type A dissection: implications for preventive ascending aortic replacement

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 941-946

  Parish, Landi M ^a   Gorman III, Joseph H ^a   Kahn, Sophia ^a   Plappert, Theodore ^a   St John Sutton, Martin G ^a   Bavaria, Joseph E ^a   Gorman, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Dissection; Echocardiography; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA ROOT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; GROUPS BY SEX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 67349229810     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.12.047     Document Type: Article

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