The Ross Operation in Children: Effects of Aortic Annuloplasty

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1326-1330

  Stewart, Robert D ^a   Backer, Carl L ^a   Hillman, Neal D ^a   Lundt, Cynthia ^a   Mavroudis, Constantine ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENDOCARDITIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; ROSS PROCEDURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548701811     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.03.097     Document Type: Article

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