Is advanced age a contraindication for emergent repair of acute type A aortic dissection?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 539-544

  Stamou, Sotiris C ^a   Hagberg, Robert C ^a   Khabbaz, Kamal R ^a   Stiegel, Mark R ^b   Reames, Mark K ^b   Skipper, Eric ^b   Nussbaum, Marcy ^b   Lobdell, Kevin W ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Morbidity; Mortality; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950632418     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.222984     Document Type: Article

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