Aortic valve replacement in patients 50 years old or younger with the St. Jude Medical valve: 14-Year experience

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 491-497

  Tatoulis, James ^a   Chaiyaroj, Suchart ^a   Smith, Julian A ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029821920     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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