Minimal access aortic valve replacement: Effects on morbidity and resource utilization

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1318-1322

  Doll, Nicolas ^a   Borger, Michael A ^a   Hain, Joerg ^a   Bucerius, Jan ^a   Walther, Thomas ^a   Gummert, Jan F ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036797986     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(02)03911-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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