Modified and "reverse" frozen elephant trunk repairs for extensive disease and complications after stent grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-109

  Lima, Brian ^a   Roselli, Eric E ^a   Soltesz, Edward G ^a   Johnston, Douglas R ^a   Pujara, Akshat C ^a   Idrees, Jahanzaib ^a   Svensson, Lars G ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOLEAK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED FROZEN ELEPHANT TRUNK REPAIR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STENT; STROKE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACIC AORTIC DISEASE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84055189408     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.08.034     Document Type: Article

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