Banking of cryopreserved heart valves in Europe: Assessment of a 10-year operation in the European Homograft Bank (EHB)

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 207-214

  Goffin, Yves A ^a,b   Van Hoeck, Beatrice ^a   Jashari, Ramadan ^a   Soots, Georges ^a   Kalmar, Peter ^a  

^a European Homograft Bank   (Belgium)

^b QUEEN ASTRID MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EXPLANT; FIBROBLAST; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE BANKS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0034072690     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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