Aortic root replacement: Results using the St. Jude Medical/Hemashield composite graft

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1032-1035

  Girardi, Leonard N ^a   Talwalkar, Nirupama G ^a   Coselli, Joseph S ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARFAN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030693712     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00491-8     Document Type: Article

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