Morphological and clinical findings in 247 surgically excised native aortic valves

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 747-755

  Butany, Jagdish ^a,b   Collins, Michael J ^a   Demellawy, Dina El ^a   Nair, Vidhya ^a   Israel, Noobar ^a   Leong, Shaun W ^a   Borger, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic incompetence; Aortic stenosis; Bicuspid aortic valve; Calcification; Infective endocarditis; Rheumatic valve disease

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 23744457172     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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