Homografts in patients with combined disease of the aortic valve and the ascending aorta: An alternative to the classical Bentall procedure

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 650-655

  Gulbins, H ^a   Kreuzer, E ^a   Uhlig, A ^a   Reichart, B ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPOSITE GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEATH; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EXPERIENCE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DILATATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034793135     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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