The St. Jude "Silzone" valve: Midterm results in treatment of active endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 758-762

  Seipelt, Ralf G ^a   Vazquez Jimenez, Jaime F ^a   Seipelt, Ingrid M ^a   Franke, Andreas ^a   Chalabi, Khaled ^a   Schoendube, Friedrich A ^a   Messmer, Bruno J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILVER; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034853805     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02705-9     Document Type: Article

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