A new technique for repair of atrioventricular disruption complicating mitral valve replacement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1973-1974

  Mejia, Rosauro ^a   Thomson, Duncan S ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CATTLE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GLUTARAL; HEART ATRIA; HEART RUPTURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ADHESIVES;

EID: 0037974607     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)05000-2     Document Type: Article

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