Aortic Root Replacement Does Not Affect Outcome and Quality of Life

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 775-781

  Stalder, Mario ^a   Staffelbach, Sabine ^a   Immer, Franz F ^a   Englberger, Lars ^a   Berdat, Pascal A ^a   Eckstein, Friedrich S ^a   Carrel, Thierry P ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548060266     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.099     Document Type: Article

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