Current approaches to minimally invasive aortic valve surgery

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-95

  Estrera, Anthony L ^a   Reardon, Michael J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INCISION; LENGTH OF STAY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY;

AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0034094280     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001573-200003000-00005     Document Type: Short Survey

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