The CarboMedics valve: Experience with 1,049 implants

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 137-143

  Bernal, José M ^a   Rabasa, José M ^a   Gutierrez Garcia, Francisco ^a   Morales, Carlos ^a   Francisco Nistal, J ^a   Revuelta, José M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION; ROTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0031907680     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01238-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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