Factors determining selection of valve prosthesis - Tissue or mechanical: Current status

Advances in Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2002, Pages 189-194

  Chatterjee, Subhasis ^a   Gardner, Timothy J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MECHANICS; MITRAL VALVE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MECHANICS; MITRAL VALVE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036355846     PISSN: 00652326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000058927     Document Type: Article

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