Post-cardiotomy type A aortic dissection
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Post-cardiotomy type A aortic dissection.
I read with great interest the article by Rylski et al. [1] investigating the management and outcomes of iatrogenic acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD) in the current era by extracting data from an international registry. AAAD after non-aortic cardiac surgery is considered an extremely dreadful complication, converting a low-risk procedure into a high-risk rescue situation. In the present rep...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1010-7940,1873-734X
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezt585