The aortic homograft: Evolution of indications, techniques, and results in 107 patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 659-664

  Prager, Richard L ^a,b   Fischer, Carl R ^a   Kong, Bobby ^a   Byrne, James P ^a   Jones, Diane J ^a   LaWaun Hance, M ^a   Gago, Otto ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030842659     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00623-1     Document Type: Article

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