Partial versus full sternotomy for aortic valve replacement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2209-2213

  Szwerc, Michael F ^a   Benckart, Daniel H ^a   Wiechmann, Robert J ^a   Savage, Edward B ^a   Szydlowski, Gary W ^a   Magovern Jr , George J ^a   Magovern, James A ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA OCCLUSION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INCISION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033388614     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00863-2     Document Type: Article

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