Reoperative cryopreserved root and ascending aorta replacement for acute aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Lytle, Bruce W ^a   Sabik, Joseph F ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Svensson, Lars G ^a   Pettersson, Gosta B ^a   Cosgrove III, Delos M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; REOPERATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036839854     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04129-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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