Successful treatment of atrioesophageal fistula by cervical esophageal ligation and decompression

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  St Julien, Jamii ^a   Putnam Jr , Joe B ^a,b,c   Nesbitt, Jonathan C ^a,b,c   Lambright, Eric S ^a,b,c   Petracek, Michael R ^a   Grogan, Eric L ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; ENOXAPARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATRIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS LIGATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSTOMY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; JEJUNOSTOMY; LIGATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS; FISTULA; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79957669493     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.01.039     Document Type: Article

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