Mid-term clinical and echocardiographic follow up of patients with CarboMedics® valves in the tricuspid position

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 396-402

  Shapira, Yaron ^a   Nili, Moshe ^a   Hirsch, Rafael ^a,b   Vaturi, Mordehai ^a   Vidne, Bernardo ^a   Sagie, Alex ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0034082129     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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