Surgical treatment of multivalvular endocarditis: Twenty-one-year single center experience

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1475-1480

  Yao, Feng ^a   Han, Lin ^a   Xu, Zhi yun ^a   Zou, Liang jian ^a   Huang, Sheng dong ^a   Wang, Zhi nong ^a   Lu, Fang lin ^a   Yao, Ying long ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVALVULAR ENDOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BIOPROSTHESIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 65649118960     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.11.046     Document Type: Article

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