Minimally Invasive Approaches to Aortic Valve Surgery: Brigham Experience

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 148-153

  Kim, Betty S ^a   Soltesz, Edward G ^a   Cohn, Lawrence H ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac surgery; minimally invasive aortic valve surgery; upper hemisternotomy

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCISION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751547532     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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