Mitral valve replacement in a patients with an extensively calcified mitral anulus: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 427-429

  Toyoda, Yoshiya ^a   Shida, Tsutomu ^a   Wakita, Noboru ^a   Matoba, Yasumi ^a   Ozaki, Nobuchika ^a  

^a KOBE ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Mitral anular calcification; Mitral stenosis; Mitral valve replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS;

EID: 0031920197     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950050156     Document Type: Article

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