Replacement of degenerated mitral and aortic bioprostheses without explantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1509-1514

  Geha, Alexander S ^a   Massad, Malek G ^a   Snow, Norman J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HEART RUPTURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION;

EID: 0035171636     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02973-3     Document Type: Article

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