Asymmetric medial degeneration of the ascending aorta in aortic valve disease: A pilot study of surgical management

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-133

  Cotrufo, Maurizio ^a   Della Corte, Alessandro ^a   De Santo, Luca S ^a   De Feo, Marisa ^a   Covino, Franco E ^a   Dialetto, Giovanni ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DILATATION; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA WALL; AORTOPLASTY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037354668     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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