Successful Endovascular Repair of Acute Type B Aortic Dissection in Undiagnosed Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 608-609

  Khalique, Z ^a   Lyons, O T A ^a   Clough, R E ^a   Bell, R E ^a   Reidy, J F ^a   Schwarze, U ^b   Byers, P H ^b   Taylor, P R ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ehlers Danlos syndrome; Endovascular; Null alleles; Stent graft repair

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COL3A1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STENT; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE DISEASE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COLLAGEN TYPE III; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449707533     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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