Aortic valve operations under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest for the porcelain aorta: 'No-touch' technique

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1313-1315

  Byrne, John G ^a   Aranki, Sary F ^a   Cohn, Lawrence H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOPLEGIA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADHESIONS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONSTRICTION; DISSECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032076080     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00183-0     Document Type: Article

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