Ten years' experience of aortic valve replacement with the omnicarbon valve prosthesis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1182-1187

  Abe, Tomio ^a,b   Kamata, Koji ^a   Kuwaki, Kenji ^a   Komatsu, Kanshi ^a   Komatsu, Sakuzo ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030117245     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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