Huge aneurysm of the sinus of valsalva following infective endocarditis in Behcet's disease

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-180

  Okada, Kenji ^a,b,c   Eishi, Kiyoyuki ^a   Kitoh, Yoshitsugu ^a   Kosakai, Yoshio ^a   Isobe, Fumitaka ^a   Nakano, Kiyoharu ^a   Sasako, Yoshikado ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA SINUS ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AORTIC ANEURYSM; BEHCET SYNDROME; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINUS OF VALSALVA;

EID: 0030898643     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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