Long-Term Results of Aortic Valve Replacement With a Small St. Jude Medical Valve in Japanese Patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1303-1308

  Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Arinaga, Koichi ^a   Hori, Hidetsugu ^a   Nakamura, Eiji ^a   Ueda, Tomohiro ^a   Tayama, Eiki ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; BODY SURFACE AREA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40749108471     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.031     Document Type: Article

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