Stuck valve leaflet detected by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1484-1485

  Kumano, Hiroshi ^a   Suehiro, Shigefumi ^a   Shibata, Toshihiko ^a   Hattori, Koji ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroaki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032988213     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00212-X     Document Type: Article

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