Fifteen years' clinical experience with the CarboMedics prosthetic heart valve

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 82-88

  Aagaard, Jan ^a,b   Tingleff, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; CHILD; HEART VALVE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17944379107     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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