Aortic Valve Infective Endocarditis: Could Multi-Detector CT Scan Be Proposed for Routine Screening of Concomitant Coronary Artery Disease Before Surgery?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1585-1587

  Lentini, Salvatore ^a   Monaco, Francesco ^a   Tancredi, Fabrizio ^a   Savasta, Marcello ^a   Gaeta, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FATALITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDEMA; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64649092785     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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