Six-year experience with cryopreserved mitral homografts in the treatment of tricuspid valve endocarditis in HIV-infected drug addicts

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 575-577

  Mestres, Carlos A ^a   Miro, Jose M ^a   Pare, J Carlos ^a   Pomar, Jose L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG OVERDOSE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; CANDIDIASIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0032829001     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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