Enlargement of the Small Aortic Root During Aortic Valve Replacement: Is There a Benefit?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-100

  Kulik, Alexander ^a   Al Saigh, Manal ^a   Chan, Vincent ^a   Masters, Roy G ^a   Bédard, Pierre ^a   Lam, B Khanh ^a   Rubens, Fraser D ^a   Hendry, Paul J ^a   Mesana, Thierry G ^a   Ruel, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC ROOT ENLARGEMENT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37249039292     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.058     Document Type: Article

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