Videoassisted thrombectomy of mechanical prosthetic heart valves

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 404-406

  Carrier, Michel ^a   Pellerin, Michel ^a   Dagenais, Francois ^a   Perrault, Louis P ^a   Petitclerc, Robert ^a   Pelletier, L Conrad ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; COUMARIN; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032841974     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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