Aortic root replacement with a new stentless aortic valve xenograft conduit: Preliminary hemodynamic and clinical results

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 752-757

  Carrel, Thierry P ^a   Berdat, Pascal ^a   Englberger, Lars ^a   Eckstein, Friedrich ^a   Immer, Franz ^a   Seiler, Christian ^a   Kipfer, Beat ^a   Schmidli, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE CONTROL; ENDOCARDITIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SWINE; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XENOGRAFT;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0345328597     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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