Interdisciplinary expert consensus document on management of type B aortic dissection

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 61, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1661-1678

  Fattori, Rossella ^a   Cao, Piergiorgio ^b   De Rango, Paola ^c   Czerny, Martin ^d   Evangelista, Arturo ^e   Nienaber, Christoph ^f   Rousseau, Hervé ^g   Schepens, Marc ^h  

^a SAN SALVATORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Unit of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^g CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

^h General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

Author keywords

consensus; endovascular treatment; type B dissection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA DISSECTION TYPE B; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATED CHRONIC AORTIC DISSECTION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; ORGAN MALPERFUSION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIAORTIC HEMATOMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 84876230266     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.11.072     Document Type: Review

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