Awake Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation Using Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 992-994

  Mukherjee, Chirojit ^a   Walther, Thomas ^a   Borger, Michael Andrew ^a   Kempfert, Joerg ^a   Schuler, Gerhard ^a   Mohr, Friedrich Wilhelm ^a   Ender, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLORAZEPATE POTASSIUM; FENTANYL; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MIDAZOLAM; ROPIVACAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VENTILATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; MORTALITY; PALPATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SITTING; SUPINE POSITION; THORACOTOMY; TRANSAPICAL AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIDES; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FENTANYL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 68849124143     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.052     Document Type: Article

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