Nineteen-millimeter prosthetic aortic valves allow normalization of left ventricular mass in elderly women

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2022-2025

  Freed, Darren H ^a   Tam, James W ^a   Moon, Michael C ^a   Harding, Gregory E J ^a   Ahmad, Ejaz ^a   Pascoe, Edward A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 0036900903     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04079-1     Document Type: Article

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