Fusion of Aortic Valve Commissures in Patients Supported by a Continuous Axial Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1269-1274

  Mudd, James O ^a   Cuda, Jonathan D ^a   Halushka, Marc ^a   Soderlund, Karl A ^a   Conte, John V ^a   Russell, Stuart D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC VALVE COMMISSURE FUSION; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE SECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57049163522     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.05.029     Document Type: Article

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