Neoaortic Root Diameters and Aortic Regurgitation in Children After the Ross Operation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 594-600

  Hörer, Jürgen ^a   Hanke, Thorsten ^b   Stierle, Ulrich ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Takkenberg, Johanna J M ^c   Bogers, Ad J J C ^c   Hemmer, Wolfgang ^d   Rein, Joachim G ^d   Hetzer, Roland ^e   Hübler, Michael ^e   Robinson, Derek R ^f   Sievers, Hans H ^b   Lange, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SANA KLINIKUM OFFENBACH   (Germany)

^e DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SINUS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; ROSS PROCEDURE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BODY SURFACE AREA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULMONARY VALVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 67650726498     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.077     Document Type: Article

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