Port-access aortic valve replacement - First case report in Japan

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-675

  Totsugawa, Toshinori ^a   Kuinose, Masahiko ^a   Ozawa, Masamichi ^a   Eto, Koki ^a   Yoshitaka, Hidenori ^a   Tsushima, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a THE SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE OF OKAYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Minimally invasive cardiac surgery; Port access

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CANNULATION; CARDIOPLEGIA; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 43549110896     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.674     Document Type: Article

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