Mechanical Aortic Valve Prostheses in the Small Aortic Root: Top Hat Versus Standard CarboMedics Aortic Valve

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-70

  Roedler, Suzanne ^a   Czerny, Martin ^a   Neuhauser, Jan ^a   Zimpfer, Daniel ^a   Gottardi, Roman ^a   Dunkler, Daniela ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a   Grimm, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOMEDICS PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TOP HAT PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47049096373     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.085     Document Type: Article

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