Ten-year experience with handmade trileaflet polytetrafluoroethylene valved conduit used for pulmonary reconstruction

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 124-131

  Ando, Makoto ^a   Takahashi, Yukihiro ^a  

^a SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DACRON IMPLANT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE LEAFLET; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY VALVULOPLASTY; RELIABILITY; ROSS PROCEDURE; XENOGRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249091997     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.08.060     Document Type: Article

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