Autograft from quadrangular resection for floppy valve repair in endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 270-271

  De Peppo, Alfonso Penta ^a   Zeitani, Jacob ^a   De Paulis, Ruggero ^a   Chiariello, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETILMICIN; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANNULOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CHORDA TENDINEA RUPTURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CHORDAE TENDINEAE; ENDOCARDITIS, SUBACUTE BACTERIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PLIABILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032125684     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00407-X     Document Type: Article

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