Gender differences in the long-term outcomes after valve replacement surgery

Heart

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 318-326

  Kulik, A ^a   Lam, B K ^a   Rubens, F D ^a   Hendry, P J ^a   Masters, R G ^a   Goldstein, W ^a   Bedard P ^a   Mesana, T G ^a   Ruel, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REOPERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62149095040     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2008.146688     Document Type: Article

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