Cardiac autotransplantation for the treatment of permanent atrial fibrillation combined with mitral valve disease

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 138-142

  Troise, Giovanni ^a   Brunelli, Federico ^a   Cirillo, Marco ^a   Amaducci, Andrea ^a   Mhagna, Zen ^a   Dalla Tomba, Margherita ^a   Tasca, Giordano ^a   Quaini, Eugenio ^a  

^a Poliambulanza Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMEGALY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY VEINS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0037710462     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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