Mitral repair in patients with severely calcified annulus: Feasibility, surgery and results

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-159

  Fasol, Roland ^a   Mahdjoobian, Katja ^a   Joubert Hubner, Elrina ^a  

^a IMC International Innovative Medical Care Center   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; PHENPROCOUMON;

ADULT; AGED; ANNULOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRICUSPID VALVE; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; GERMANY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036510846     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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