Mid-term experience with valved bovine jugular vein conduits

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-365

  Pawelec Wojtalik, Malgorzata ^a   Mrówczyński, Wojciech ^a   Wodziński, Andrzej ^a   Wojtalik, Michal ^a   Henschke, Jacek ^a   Sharma, Girish K ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLOGRAFT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCARDITIS; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; INFANT; JUGULAR VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPHYLAXIS; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURVIVAL; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 29244449892     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230501300414     Document Type: Article

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