The On-X® heart valve: Mid-term results in a poorly anticoagulated population

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-86

  Williams, Mervyn A ^a,b   van Riet, Sonia ^a  

^a Provincial Hospital   (South Africa)

^b 314 Greenacres Hospital Port Elizabeth   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AORTA VALVE; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSTHESIS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC VALVE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31844440420     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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