Implications of a congenitally abnormal valve: A study of 1025 consecutively excised aortic valves

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 530-536

  Collins, M J ^a   Butany, Jagdish ^a,c   Borger, M A ^a,c   Strauss, B H ^b,c   David, T E ^a,c  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CALCIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; ULCER; UNICUSPID AORTIC VALVE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 42049120912     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2007.051904     Document Type: Article

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