Endovascular treatment of chronic type A dissection.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
; 7(1): 164-6, 2008 Feb.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17933835
Type A aortic dissection is usually treated with standard surgery, requiring cardiopulmonary bypass and sometimes deep hypothermia. Besides the well-established procedure, mortality and complications are considerable. Using the knowledge and lessons learned from the endovascular treatment of descending aortic diseases, emerging reports describe new approaches to the condition, using endovascular stent-grafts. This report describes an endovascular treatment of a chronic type A aortic dissection without cardiopulmonary bypass and avoiding thoracotomy.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Aneurisma da Aorta Torácica
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Angioscopia
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Implante de Prótese Vascular
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Dissecção Aórtica
Limite:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
Assunto da revista:
ANGIOLOGIA
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CARDIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Reino Unido