Early experience with a quadrileaflet stentless mitral valve

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2001, Pages

  Hofmann, Britt ^a   Cichon, Romuald ^a   Knaut, Michael ^a   Kappert, Utz ^a   Tugtekin, Sems M ^a   Aron, Wilma ^a   Schüler, Stephan ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; BIOPROSTHESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035003661     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02544-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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