Surgical treatment of prosthetic valve thrombosis: Ten years' experience

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 400-403

  Lafci, Banu ^a   Özsöyler, Ibrahim ^a   Kestelli, Mert ^a   Yilik, Levent ^a   Göktogan, Tayfun ^a   Karahan, Nagihan ^a   Özbek, Cengiz ^a   Gürbüz, Ali ^a  

^a Ataturk Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33750738256     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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