Bicuspidization of the Unicuspid Aortic Valve: A New Reconstructive Approach

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2012-2018

  Schäfers, Hans Joachim ^a   Aicher, Diana ^a   Riodionycheva, Svetlana ^a   Lindinger, Angelika ^a   Rädle Hurst, Tanja ^a   Langer, Frank ^a   Abdul Khaliq, Hashim ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION;

EID: 43649095907     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.081     Document Type: Article

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