Coronary artery problems during homograft aortic valve replacement: Role of transesophageal echocardiography

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 533-535

  Koh, Tat W ^a   Ferdinand, Francis D ^a   Jin, Xu Y ^a   Gibson, Derek G ^a   Pepper, John R ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 0030801215     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00528-6     Document Type: Article

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