Replacement of the Ascending Aorta and Aortic Valve with a Composite Graft: Operative and Long-Term Results

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 257-266

  Tabayashi, Koichi ^a   Fukujyu, Takao ^a   Turu, Yusuke ^a   Sadahiro, Mituaki ^a   Konnai, Toshiaki ^a   Uchida, Naoki ^a   Ohmi, Mikio ^a   Sekino, Yoshihito ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Saka General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bentall technique; Button technique; Combination of the interposition and button technique; Interposition graft technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032042907     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.184.257     Document Type: Article

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