Minimally invasive technology for mitral valve surgery via left thoracotomy: Experience with forty cases

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1026-1032

  Saunders, Paul C ^a   Grossi, Eugene A ^a,b   Sharony, Ram ^a   Schwartz, Charles F ^a   Ribakove, Greg H ^a   Culliford, Alfred T ^a   Delianides, Julie ^a   Baumann, F Gregory ^a   Galloway, Aubrey C ^a   Colvin, Stephen B ^a   Fann, James ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLEEDING; BYPASS SURGERY; CANNULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; VACUUM; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 11144353540     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2003.08.053     Document Type: Article

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