Successful thrombectomy for thrombosis of aortic composite valve graft in pregnancy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1317-1318

  Alessandrini, Francesco ^a   Lapenna, Elisabetta ^a,b   Nasso, Giuseppe ^a   De Bonis, Michele ^a   Federico Possati, Gian ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0037385885     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04622-2     Document Type: Article

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