Preservation of the Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Schäfers, Hans Joachim ^a   Aicher, Diana ^a   Langer, Frank ^a   Lausberg, Henning F ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE PROLAPSE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846374127     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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