Conservative surgical treatment of anterior mitral valve aneurysm secondary to aortic valve endocarditis

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 435-438

  Vieira, Marcelo L C ^a   Pomerantzeff, Pablo M ^a   Pillco, Limbert L S ^a   Da Costa, Joyceli Melo ^a   Mathias Jr , Wilson ^a   Leal, Samira B ^a   Grinberg, Max ^a   Andrade, José L ^a   Ramires, José A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Echocardiography; Endocarditis; Valve aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANAMNESIS; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART SOUND; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE ANEURYSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRIDANS STREPTOCOCCI;

EID: 0038538194     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03074.x     Document Type: Article

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