Do pulmonary autografts provide better outcomes than mechanical valves? A prospective randomized trial

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2194-2198

  Doss, Mirko ^a   Wood, Jeffrey P ^a   Martens, Sven ^a   Wimmer Greinecker, Gerhard ^a   Moritz, Anton ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VALVE;

EID: 28344434526     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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