Aortic root remodeling: Ten-year experience with 274 patients

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 909-915

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

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA ROOT REMODELING; AORTA VALVE PROLAPSE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ROOT DILATATION; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VASODILATATION;

AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548836313     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.05.052     Document Type: Article

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