What influences the outcome of valve replacement in critical aortic stenosis?

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1254-1256

  Baumgartner, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE TEST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 25144449179     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.055129     Document Type: Editorial

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