Early experience with the new Masters series of St. Jude Medical heart valve: In vivo hemodynamic and clinical results in patients with narrowed aortic annulus

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 535-541

  Zingg, Urs ^a   Aeschbacher, Beat ^a   Seiler, Christian ^a   Althaus, Ulrich ^a   Carrel, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12644299631     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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