Long-Term Results of Reoperative Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients with Rheumatic Disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1939-1943

  Matsuyama, Katsuhiko ^a   Matsumoto, Masahiko ^a   Sugita, Takaaki ^a   Nishizawa, Junichiro ^a   Kawansihi, Yujiro ^a   Uehara, Kyokuu ^a  

^a TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0344665458     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01061-0     Document Type: Article

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