Echocardiographic characteristics of the cryopreserved allograft aortic valve replacement assessed by intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiography

Vascular

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-298

  Hasegawa, J ^a   Kitamura, S ^a   Kawata, T ^a   Kawachi, K ^a   Niwaya, K ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aortic valve replacement; coaptation zone length; cryopreserved aortic allograft; transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029973371     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099600400304     Document Type: Article

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