Aortic Valve Replacement Improves Survival in Severe Aortic Stenosis Associated With Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-85

  Pai, Ramdas G ^a   Varadarajan, Padmini ^a   Kapoor, Nikhil ^a   Bansal, Ramesh C ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; STATINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34250303800     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.02.094     Document Type: Article

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