Management of anomalous left circumflex artery encircling the aortic annulus in a patient undergoing multivalvular surgery

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 667-669

  Castillo, Javier G ^a   Sanz, Javier ^a   Fischer, Gregory W ^a   Bowman, Kimberley ^a   Filsoufi, Farzan ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEFT CIRCUMFLEX ARTERY ANOMALY; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEPTIC SHOCK; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BIOPROSTHESIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SINUS OF VALSALVA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 70449491664     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00930.x     Document Type: Article

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