Outcome After Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement in Children and Young Adults

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 604-610

  Arnold, Raoul ^a   Ley Zaporozhan, Julia ^b   Ley, Sebastian ^c   Loukanov, Tsvetomir ^c   Sebening, Christian ^c   Kleber, Johann Baptist ^c   Goebel, Björn ^d   Hagl, Siegfried ^c   Karck, Matthias ^c   Gorenflo, Matthias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BIOPROSTHESIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349105928     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.035     Document Type: Article

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