Surgical Treatment of Active Aortic Endocarditis: Homografts Are Not the Cornerstone of Outcome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1935-1942

  Avierinos, Jean François ^a   Thuny, Franck ^a   Chalvignac, Virginie ^a   Giorgi, Roch ^a   Tafanelli, Laurence ^a   Casalta, Jean Paul ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Mesana, Thierry ^a   Collart, Frederic ^a   Metras, Dominique ^a   Habib, Gilbert ^a   Riberi, Alberto ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36248981488     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.050     Document Type: Article

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