Thrombosis of prosthetic heart valves: Diagnosis and therapeutic considerations

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 137-142

  Roudaut, Raymond ^a   Serri, Karim ^a   Lafitte, Stephane ^a  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BIOPROSTHESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS THROMBOSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33846222267     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.071183     Document Type: Review

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