Negative results - Valves: Splenic rupture complicating aortic valve replacement for bacterial endocarditis

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-140

  Dimitrakakis, Georgios ^a   Von Oppell, Ulrich ^a   Zilidis, Georgios ^a   Srivastava, Anurag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Splenic rupture; Stroke; Valve replacement

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY INFARCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; RUPTURE; STROKE;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39049095627     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.163014     Document Type: Article

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