Congenital pericardial defect with ruptured acute type A aortic dissection

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 912-914

  Furui, Masato ^a   Ohashi, Takeki ^a   Hirai, Yasutaka ^a   Kageyama, Soichirou ^a  

^a Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac tamponade; Congenital pericardial defect; Left haemothorax; Ruptured acute aortic dissection

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL PERICARDIAL DEFECT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FAINTNESS; HEART ARREST; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESUSCITATION; RUPTURED TYPE A AORTIC DISSECTION; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869183131     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs328     Document Type: Article

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