The freestyle stentless bioprosthesis for prosthetic valve endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 533-535

  Sakaguchi, Taichi ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a   Ohtake, Shigeaki ^a   Hirata, Nobuaki ^a   Matsuda, Hikaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; METICILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANNULOPLASTY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABSCESS; AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0032921130     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01153-9     Document Type: Article

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