Quality of life in aortic valve replacement: Pulmonary autografts versus mechanical prostheses

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1963-1966

  Nötzold, Axel ^a   Hüppe, Michael ^a   Schmidtke, Claudia ^a   Blömer, Petra ^a   Uhlig, Thomas ^a   Sievers, Hans Hinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; PULMONARY ARTERY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VALVE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0035368869     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01267-0     Document Type: Article

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