Intracardiac air clearing in valvular surgery guided by transesophageal echocardiography

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 553-557

  Dalmas, Jean Paul ^a   Eker, Armand ^a   Girard, Claude ^a   Flamens, Claire ^a   Neidecker, Jean ^a   Obadia, Jean Francois ^a   Montagna, Pietro ^a   Lehot, Jean Jacques ^a   Jegaden, Olivier ^a   Mikaeloff, Philippe ^a  

^a LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 10144229393     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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