Minimally invasive video-assisted mitral valve surgery: Our lessons after a 4-year experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Schroeyers, Pascal ^a   Wellens, Francis ^a   De Geest, Raf ^a   Degrieck, Ivan ^a   Van Praet, Frank ^a   Vermeulen, Yvette ^a   Vanermen, Hugo ^a  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHORDA TENDINEA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCARDITIS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HEART DILATATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MYXOMA; HEART VALVE PROLAPSE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCLEROSIS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0034854485     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02974-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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