Fifteen years of clinical and echocardiographic follow up with the CarboMedics hearth valve

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-72

  Carrier, Michel ^a   Pellerin, Michel ^a   Basmadjian, Arsène ^a   Bouchard, Denis ^a   Perrault, Louis P ^a   Cartier, Raymond ^a   Pagé, Pierre ^a   Demers, Philippe ^a   Hébert, Yves ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CANADA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31844443451     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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