The Nicks-Nunez posterior enlargement in the small aortic annulus: Immediate-intermediate results

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 749-753

  St Rammos, Kyriakos ^a,b   Ketikoglou, Demetrios G ^a   Koullias, George J ^a   Tsomkopoulos, Sotirios G ^a   Rammos, Charalambos K ^a   Argyrakis, Nikolaos P ^a  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nicks Nunez procedure; Small aortic root

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOPLEGIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845390506     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.136457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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