Medical management of acute type a aortic dissection

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 286-293

  Feldman, Marina ^a   Elefteriades, John A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL; AORTA ANEURYSM; COMORBIDITY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANIMALS; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 72049100684     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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