Mid-term results after Epic™ xenograft implantation for aortic, mitral, and double valve replacement

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 641-648

  Lehmann, Sven ^a   Walther, Thomas ^a   Leontjev, Sergey ^a   Kempfert, Jörg ^a   Rastan, Ardawan ^a   Garbade, Jens ^a   Borger, Michael A ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

AGED; AORTA BALLOON; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36949038232     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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