Unexpected durability of Smeloff-Cutter aortic ball valve prosthesis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1633-1635

  Naito, Yuji ^a   Nakajima, Masato ^a   Inoue, Hidenori ^a   Hibino, Narutoshi ^a   Mizutani, Eiki ^a   Tsuchiya, Koji ^a  

^a Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; LUNG CONGESTION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SMELLOF CUTTER AORTIC BALL VALVE PROSTHESIS; SYMPTOM; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION;

EID: 0037407210     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04784-7     Document Type: Article

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