Aortic valve replacement: Is there an implant size variation across Europe?

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-205

  Kapetanakis, Emmanouil I ^a,b   Athanasiou, Thanos ^b   Mestres, Carlos A ^c   Nashef, Samer A M ^d   Aagaard, Jan ^e   Moritz, Anton ^f   Van Ingen, Gerrit ^g   Chronidou, Fany ^a   Palatianos, George ^a   Alivizatos, Peter A ^a   Stavridis, George T ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Cardiovascular Surgery   (Spain)

^d PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Klinik fur Herzchirurgie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSTHESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; BODY SURFACE AREA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 50549087864     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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