Midterm cost and effectiveness of thoracic endovascular aortic repair versus open repair

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 473-479

  Karimi, Ashkan ^a   Walker, Karen L ^a   Martin, Tomas D ^a   Hess, Philip J ^a   Klodell, Charles T ^a   Feezor, Robert J ^a   Beck, Adam W ^a   Beaver, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOARSENESS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STROKE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COMORBIDITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856083446     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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