Complications of prosthetic heart valves

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 106-111

  Vesey, Jeanne M ^b   Otto, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MOUTH HYGIENE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTHESIS;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANTICOAGULANTS; BIOPROSTHESIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; WARFARIN;

EID: 2442644342     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-004-0007-x     Document Type: Review

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