Cardiac and Vascular Surgeons for the Treatment of Aortic Disease: A Successful Partnership for Decision-Making and Management of Complex Cases

• Main Authors: Massimo Capoccia MD, MSc (Eng) (Author), Soumik Pal MRCS (Author), Michael Murphy FRCS (Author), Maziar Mireskandari FRCS (Author), Andreas Hoschtitzky MSc, FRCSEd (CTh) (Author), Christoph A. Nienaber MD, PhD, FESC, FAHA (Author), Nicholas J. Cheshire MD, FRCS (Author), Ulrich P. Rosendahl MD, FETCS (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Traditionally, cardiac and vascular surgeons have been treating diseases of the aorta as individual specialists. Neither cardiac nor vascular surgeons have ever considered the aorta as a whole, which can be diseased throughout its length at the same time requiring a more thoughtful and different app...