Mid-term results after heart valve replacement with the CarboMedics bileaflet prosthesis: Experience with 785 implants;Risultati a medio termine dopo 785 impianti con protesi valvolare cardiaca meccanica CarboMedics a doppio disco

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 790-795

  Santini, Francesco ^a,b   Gatti, Giuseppe ^a   Casali, Gianluca ^a   Pessotto, Renzo ^a   Mazzucco, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Thromboembotism; Valvular surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLEEDING; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURVIVAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE;

EID: 0032797457     PISSN: 00465968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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