Replacement of the Proximal Aorta Adds No Further Risk to Aortic Valve Procedures

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 473-478

  Reece, T Brett ^a   Singh, R Ramesh ^a   Stiles, Brendon M ^a   Peeler, Benjamin B ^a   Kern, John A ^a   Tribble, Curtis G ^a   Kron, Irving L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34447547531     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.059     Document Type: Article

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