The 17-mm St. Jude Medical Regent Valve Is a Valid Option for Patients With a Small Aortic Annulus

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-94

  Okamura, Homare ^a   Yamaguchi, Atsushi ^a   Tanaka, Masashi ^a   Naito, Kazuhiro ^a   Kimura, Naoyuki ^a   Kimura, Chieri ^a   Kobinata, Toshiyuki ^a   Ino, Takashi ^a   Adachi, Hideo ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57649218805     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.09.051     Document Type: Article

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