A cosmetic access for minimally invasive aortic valve replacement without sternotomy in women

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 473-475

  Minale, Carmine ^a   Tomasco, Biagio ^a   Di Natale, Maurilio ^a  

^a SAN CARLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOBILIZATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REHABILITATION; RIB RESECTION; SKIN INCISION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036703115     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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