Aorto-right ventricular fistula: A late complication of aortic valve replacement

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 140-142

  Roy, Debajit ^a   Saba, Souheil ^a   Grinberg, Isaac ^a   Zughaib, Marcel ^a   Sakwa, Marc ^a   Clancy, Paul ^a   McKendrick, Gregor ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm, false; Aortic aneurysm false; Aortic valve; Case report; Echocardiography, Doppler, color; Echocardiography, transesophageal; Fistula aorto right ventricular; Heart murmurs diastolic; Heart valve prosthesis aortic; Heart valves replacement; Pseudoaneurysm; Shunt left to right

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BJOERK SHILEY VALVE PROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; DACRON IMPLANT; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HUMAN; MALE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FISTULA; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032984884     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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