Perioperative bleeding and thromboembolic risk during non-cardiac surgery in patients with mechanical prosthetic heart valves: An institutional review

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 392-398

  Carrel, Thierry P ^a   Klingenmann, Wulf ^a   Mohacsi, Paul J ^a   Berdat, Pascal ^a   Althaus, Ulrich ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX SURGERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0032821748     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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