Accelerated allograft degeneration after aortic valve endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1849-1850

  Osman, Ashraf ^a   McCann, James ^a   Shemin, Richard J ^a   Lazar, Harold L ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAFCILLIN;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; SEPTICEMIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032737116     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01009-7     Document Type: Article

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