Thirty-year results of Starr-Edwards prostheses in the aortic and mitral position

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 613-619

  Gödje, Oliver L ^a,b   Fischlein, Teddy ^a   Adelhard, Klaus ^a   Nollert, Georg ^a   Klinner, Werner ^a   Reichart, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARR EDWARDS VALVE PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0343852975     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)00945-9     Document Type: Article

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