Repair of retrograde type A aortic dissection after thoracic endovascular aortic aneurysm repair using the modified elephant trunk technique

Vascular

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 116-120

  Estrera, Anthony L ^a   Shah, Pallav ^a   Lee, Taek Yeon ^a   Irani, Adel D ^a   Safi, Hazim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Elephant trunk; Endovascular

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; FLANK PAIN; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MODIFIED ELEPHANT TRUNK TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR; THORAX PAIN; THROMBECTOMY; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; EMERGENCY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; REVIEW; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649831599     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6670.2008.00072     Document Type: Article

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