Low-profile porcine bioprosthesis (Liotta): Pathologic findings and mode of failure in the long term

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-327

  Ius, Paolo ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a,b   Minarini, Marco ^a   Valente, Marialuisa ^a   Bortolotti, Uberto ^a   Talenti, Enrico ^a   Casarotto, Dino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Anatomia Patologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0029973023     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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