A critical reappraisal of the Ross operation: Renaissance of the subcoronary implantation technique?

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Sievers, Hans H ^a   Hanke, Thorsten ^a   Stierle, Ulrich ^a   Bechtel, Matthias F ^a   Graf, Bernhard ^b   Robinson, Derek R ^c   Ross, Donald N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b HELIOS KLINIKEN SCHWERIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Autograft procedure; Ross operation; Subcoronary technique

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; ROSS OPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOPROSTHESIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE TABLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VALVE; SUDDEN DEATH; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VALVE; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747154156     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.000406     Document Type: Article

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