Damage to the circumflex coronary artery during mitral valve repair with sliding leaflet technique

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2091-2093

  Tavilla, Giuseppe ^a,b   Pacini, Davide ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032451557     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01071-6     Document Type: Article

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