Edge-to-Edge Technique for Mitral Valve Repair: Medium-Term Results With Echocardiographic Follow-Up

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1356-1361

  Kuduvalli, Manoj ^a   Ghotkar, Sanjay V ^a   Grayson, Antony D ^a   Fabri, Brian M ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748756523     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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