Valved stentless composite graft: Clinical outcomes and hemodynamic characteristics

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 467-471

  Urbanski, Paul P ^a,b   Diegeler, Anno ^a   Siebel, Alexander ^a   Zacher, Michael ^a   Hacker, Robert W ^a  

^a Herz und Gefaess Klinik   (Germany)

^b Herz und Gefaess Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DACRON; POLYESTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037317192     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04346-1     Document Type: Article

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