Freestyle Stentless Bioprosthesis for Active Aortic Infectious Endocarditis with Undetermined Causative Organism

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 816-819

  Hayashi, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Ohtani, Masakatsu ^a   Hiraishi, Taizo ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Iseikai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; MICROORGANISMS; SURGERY; TISSUE;

AORTIC REGURGITATION; AORTIC VALVE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; PERICARDIAL PATCH;

PROSTHETICS;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY;

AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS;

EID: 33644874854     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mat.0000179172.97534.9f     Document Type: Article

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