Modified Maze During Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgery: The OLV Clinic Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1765-1769

  Jeanmart, Hugues ^a   Casselman, Filip ^a   Beelen, Roel ^a   Wellens, Francis ^a   Bakir, Ihsan ^a   Van Praet, F ^a   Cammu, Guy ^a   Degriek, Yvan ^a   Vermeulen, Yvette ^a   Vanermen, Hugo ^a  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTIVITAMIN K; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIGOXIN; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE; VALVULOPLASTY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 33750054992     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.051     Document Type: Article

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