Intraoperative assessment of functioning mitral valve

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 743-745

  Miyairi, Takeshi ^a   Matsumoto, Jun ^a   Tanaka, Keita ^a   Mizuno, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CARDIOPLEGIA; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030049219     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)00975-2     Document Type: Article

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