Long-term survivors after valve replacement with a starr-edwards mitral disk valve prosthesis

Artificial Organs

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 484-487

  Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a   Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Tayama, Eiki ^a   Arinaga, Koichi ^a   Oda, Takeshi ^a   Kosuga, Tomokazu ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart valve prosthesis; Mechanical heart valve; Mitral valve

Indexed keywords

HEART; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

BILEAFLET; LONG TERM DURABILITY; MECHANICAL HEART VALVES; MITRAL VALVES; VALVE REPLACEMENT; VALVE SIZE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARR EDWARDS VALVE PROSTHESIS; STENOSIS;

EID: 33744735303     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2006.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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