Reoperation after fresh homograft replacement: 23 years' experience with 655 patients

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 996-1001

  Sadowski, Jerzy ^a   Kapelak, Boguslaw ^a   Bartus, Krzysztof ^a   Podolec, Piotr ^a   Rudzinski, Pawel ^a   Myrdko, Tomasz ^a   Wierzbicki, Karol ^a   Dziatkowiak, Antoni ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Homograft; Homograft degeneration; Homograft reoperation

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALORIDINE; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ANNULOPLASTY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOCARDITIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT PRESERVATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART GRAFT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STENOSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0038386373     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(03)00109-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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