Two-stage total aortic replacement for Loeys-dietz syndrome

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-224

  Williams, Matthew L ^a   Wechsler, Stephanie Burns ^b   Hughes, G Chad ^a  

^a Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; THYMINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DACRON IMPLANT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LOEYS DIETZ SYNDROME; MALE; MUTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; LOEYS-DIETZ SYNDROME; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LOEYS-DIETZ SYNDROME; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77749274071     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00956.x     Document Type: Article

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