The frozen elephant trunk for the treatment of chronic dissection of the thoracic aorta: A multicenter experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1663-1670

  Pacini, Davide ^a   Tsagakis, Konstantinos ^b   Jakob, Heinz ^b   Mestres, Carlos A ^c   Armaro, Alessandro ^a   Weiss, Gabriel ^d   Grabenwoger, Martin ^d   Borger, Michael A ^e   Mohr, Friedrich W ^e   Bonser, Robert Stuart ^f   Di Bartolomeo, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d HIETZING HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FROZEN ELEPHANT TRUNK TECHNIQUE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; PARAPLEGIA; POPULATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 80155194318     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.06.027     Document Type: Article

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