Current status of endovascular management of complicated acute type B aortic dissection

Future Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 581-588

  Khoynezhad, Ali ^a   Gupta, Prateek K ^a   Donayre, Carlos E ^b   White, Rodney A ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Complication; Dissection; Endovascular; Management; Outcome

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HYDRALAZINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ACUTE TYPE B AORTIC DISSECTION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DP-DT; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTUBATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RUPTURE; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STENTS;

EID: 74049111300     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.09.46     Document Type: Review

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