Minimal vs median sternotomy for aortic valve replacement

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 472-475

  Moustafa, Moustafa A ^a,b   Abdelsamad, Ayman A ^a   Zakaria, Gamal ^a   Omarah, Magdy M ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Chest Diseases Hospital Kuwait   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; PANCURONIUM; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; TENOXICAM;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL STERNOTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESTHETICS; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; MINISTERNOTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349116247     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230701500605     Document Type: Article

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