A new device for ensuring the correct length of artificial chordae in mitral valvuloplasty

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1064-1065

  Matsui, Yoshiro ^a   Fukada, Yasuhisa ^b   Naito, Yuji ^b   Sasaki, Shigeyuki ^b   Yasuda, Keishu ^b  

^a Ikegami General Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ACCURACY; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CHORDA TENDINEA; DEVICE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

EID: 14244267188     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.11.026     Document Type: Article

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