Treatment outcomes in patients with non-infectious aortic valvulitis undergoing aortic valve replacement: Implication for the treatment of aortic valve involvement in Behcet's disease

Rheumatology International

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1391-1393

  Ahn, Joong Kyong ^a   Kim, Hyungjin ^a   Lee, Jaejoon ^a   Park, Pyo Won ^a   Jeon, Chan Hong ^b   Koh, Eun Mi ^a   Cha, Hoon Suk ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA WALL; AORTIC VALVULITIS; ASCENDING AORTA; BEHCET DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION; PARAVALVULAR LEAKAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVE DEHISCENCE; VALVE DETACHMENT; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; BEHCET SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69049087760     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-009-0862-2     Document Type: Letter

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