Successful transapical aortic valve implantation four weeks before 97th birthday

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 684-686

  Wendt, Daniel ^a   Eggebrecht, Holger ^a   Kahlert, Philipp ^a   Thielmann, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic valve stenosis; Transapical aortic valve implantation; Transcatheter valve implantation

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; X RAY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; AORTOGRAPHY; BIOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66949137392     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.201798     Document Type: Article

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