Structural deterioration of the Freestyle aortic valve: Mode of presentation and mechanisms

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 401-406

  Mohammadi, Siamak ^a   Baillot, Richard ^a   Voisine, Pierre ^a   Mathieu, Patrick ^a   Dagenais, François ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CALCIFICATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION;

EID: 33746209047     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.03.056     Document Type: Article

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