Acute management of aortobronchial and aortoesophageal fistulas using thoracic endovascular aortic repair

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 999-1004

  Jonker, Frederik H W ^a   Heijmen, Robin ^b   Trimarchi, Santi ^c   Verhagen, Hence J M ^d   Moll, Frans L ^e   Muhs, Bart E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS FISTULA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATEMESIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; STENT; SURVIVAL; THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOSTOMY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JEJUNOSTOMY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 70350568807     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.04.043     Document Type: Article

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