Eleven-Year Single-Center Experience with the ATS Open Pivot Bileaflet Heart Valve

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 847-852

  Baykut, Doan ^a   Grize, Leticia ^b   Schindler, Christian ^b   Keil, Angelika S ^a   Bernet, Franziska ^a   Zerkowski, Hans Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747350744     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.04.042     Document Type: Article

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