The quality of life after aortic valve replacement with homografts or prosthetic valves

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 270-276

  Podolec, Piotr ^a,b   Pfitzner, Roman ^b   Wierzbicki, Karol ^b   Kostkiewicz, Magdelena ^a   Pieniazek, Piotr ^a   Olszowska, Maria ^a   Przewlocki, Tadeusz ^a   Sokolowski, Andrzej ^c   Tracz, Wieslawa ^a   Dziatkowiak, Azkoni ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; DYSPNEA; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF EVALUATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0033057679     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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