Critical analysis of results after chimney endovascular aortic aneurysm repair raises cause for concern

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 865-874.e1

  Scali, Salvatore T ^a   Feezor, Robert J ^a   Chang, Catherine K ^a   Waterman, Alyson L ^a   Berceli, Scott A ^a   Huber, Thomas S ^a   Beck, Adam W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; APHASIA; ARTERY PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CANNULATION; CELIAC ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHIMNEY ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ISCHEMIA; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RENAL ARTERY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPEECH DISORDER; STENT THROMBOSIS; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL STENT; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908242275     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2014.03.295     Document Type: Article

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