Twenty-two years without anticoagulation with metallic heart valve

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1348-1349

  Yildiz, Ali ^a   Özcan, Firat ^a   Dogan, Mehmet ^a   Özlü, Mehmet Fatih ^a   Sasmaz, Ali ^a  

^a Department of Cardiology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Aortic; Prosthetic valve; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CINERADIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LETHALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC VALVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746714396     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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