Mitral valve replacement associated with massive left atrial calcification

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1456-1458

  Santini, Francesco ^a,b   Peranzoni, Pierfranco ^a   Mazzucco, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b BORGO TRENTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; ENDOATRIECTOMY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0032076030     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00101-5     Document Type: Article

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