Aortic root replacement with the Carboseal composite graft: 7-Year experience with the first 100 implants

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2258-2262

  Luciani, Giovanni Battista ^a   Casali, Gianluca ^a   Barozzi, Luca ^a   Mazzucco, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0033385860     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01111-X     Document Type: Article

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