Blood rheology in patients with native heart valve disease and after valve replacement

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 250-252

  Koppensteiner, Renate ^a,b   Moritz, Anton ^a   Moidl, Reinhart ^a   Banyai, Martin ^a   Haumer, Markus ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a   Ehringer, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; FIBRINOGEN; PHENPROCOUMON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VISCOSITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032518705     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00883-7     Document Type: Article

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