The freestyle stentless bioprosthesis in more than 1000 patients: A single-center experience over 10 years

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-48

  Ennker, Jürgen A C ^a,b   Ennker, Ina C ^b   Albert, Alexander A ^b   Rosendahl, Ulrich P ^b   Bauer, Stefan ^b   Florath, Ines ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Heart Institute Lahr/Baden   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149218287     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00732.x     Document Type: Article

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