The dilemma of moderate aortic valve disease in patients subjected to coronary artery bypass grafting

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 710-712

  Antunes, Manuel J ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; CALCIFICATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MINOR SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL;

AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036739472     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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