Artificial chordae in the treatment of anterior mitral leaflet pathology

Vascular

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-128

  Zussa, C ^a   Polesel, E ^a   Rocco, F ^a   Valfre C ^a  

^a TREVISO REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

artificial chordae; expanded polytetrafluoroethylene; mitral valve repair

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CHORDA TENDINEA RUPTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHORDAE TENDINEAE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURES;

EID: 0030994524     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099700500121     Document Type: Article

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