Should a video-assisted mini-thoracotomy be the approach of choice for reoperative mitral valve surgery?

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-158

  Bolotin, Gil ^a   Kypson, Alan P ^a   Reade, Clifton C ^a   Chu, Victor F ^a   Freund Jr , William L ^a   Nifong, L Wiley ^a   Chitwood Jr , W Randolph ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STROKE VOLUME; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7044227815     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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