Homograft Implantation Techniques in the Aortic Position: To Preserve or Replace the Aortic Root?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1578-1585

  Athanasiou, Thanos ^a   Jones, Catherine ^a   Jin, Ruyun ^b   Grunkemeier, Gary L ^b   Ross, Donald N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EARLE A CHILES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA ROOT; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZATION; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; AORTA VALVE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART SURGERY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646829261     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.12.049     Document Type: Article

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