Root Replacement Using Stentless Valves in the Small Aortic Root: A Propensity Score Analysis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1379-1384

  Kunihara, Takashi ^a   Schmidt, Kathrin ^a   Glombitza, Petra ^a   Dzindzibadze, Vachtang ^a   Lausberg, Henning ^a   Schäfers, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748756269     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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