Intraoperative microwave ablation in patients undergoing valvular surgery: Midterm results

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 409-411

  Venturini, Andrea ^a   Polesel, Elvio ^a   Cutaia, Valeria ^a   Asta, Angiolino ^a   Mangino, Domenico ^a   Moretti, Roberto ^a   Terrini, Alberto ^a   Zussa, Claudio ^a  

^a Umberto i Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG VEIN; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0142154896     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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