Platelets are deposited early post-operatively on the leaflet of a mechanical heart valve in sheep without post-operative anticoagulants or antiplatelet agents: A scanning electron microscopic observation of the pyrolytic carbon surface in a mechanical heart valve

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1996, Pages

  Okazaki, Yukio ^a   Wika, Kent E ^a   Matsuyoshi, Tetsuji ^a   Fukamachi, Kiyotaka ^a   Kunitomo, Ryuji ^a   Tweden, Katherine S ^b   Harasaki, Hiroaki ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b St Jude Medical Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD; COATED MATERIALS; DRUG THERAPY; GRAPHITE; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACES;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIPLATELET DRUGS; PLATELETS; PYROLYTIC CARBON COATED GRAPHITE; SHEEPS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

HEART VALVE PROSTHESES;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEEP; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

EID: 0030250479     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002480-199609000-00089     Document Type: Article

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