Usefulness of transesophageal echocardiographic monitoring to improve the outcome of stent-graft treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms.

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Published in Am J Cardiol on February 01, 2001

Authors

C Rapezzi1, G Rocchi, R Fattori, I Caldarera, M Ferlito, G Napoli, A Pierangeli, A Branzi

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Bologna, Italy. crapezzi@orsola-malpighi.med.unibo.it

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