Mitral valve surgery utilizing homografts: Early results

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 222-229

  Gulbins, Helmut ^a   Kreuzer, Eckart ^a   Uhlig, Antje ^a   Reichart, Bruno ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOGENICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0034027339     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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