Total arch replacement after a failed repair for Takayasu's ascending aortitis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 300-302

  Shafii, Alexis E ^a   Vivacqua, Alessandro ^a   Albacker, Turki B ^a   Sheih, Charles ^a   Svensson, Lars G ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY;

ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; AORTA, THORACIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REOPERATION; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055198596     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.06.064     Document Type: Article

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