The artificial heart valve

Nature Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1160-1164

  Starr, Albert ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA COARCTATION; AUTOPSY; BLALOCK TAUSSIG ANASTOMOSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE MODEL; DOG; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LUNG MACHINE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CARDIOLOGY; HEART VALVE; HISTORY; PROSTHESIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CARDIOLOGY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34948873671     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1644     Document Type: Note

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