Orthotopic heart transplantation: Standard versus bicaval technique

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1329-1333

  Grande, Antonino M ^a   Rinaldi, Mauro ^a   D'Armini, Andrea M ^a   Campana, Carlo ^b   Traversi, Egidio ^b   Pederzolli, Carlo ^a   Abbiate, Nicola ^a   Klersy, Catherine ^c   Viganò, Mario ^a  

^a Inst Gen Surg Organ T   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASYSTOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; VENAE CAVAE;

EID: 0034212308     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)00765-7     Document Type: Article

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