Ten-year experience with cryopreserved aortic allografts in the surgical treatment of aortic valve pathologies

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 541-547

  Rocco, Francesco ^a,b   Ius, Paolo ^a   Mirone, Salvatore ^a   Paolin, Adolfo ^a   Gatto, Claudio ^a   Bredariol, Simonetta ^a   Tamari, Wadih ^a   Valfré, Carlo ^a  

^a TREVISO REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Presidio Ospedaliero ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Cardiac surgery; Endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; AORTA; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16544371997     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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