Surgical Treatment of Active Native Aortic Valve Endocarditis With Allografts and Mechanical Prostheses

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1814-1821

  Klieverik, Loes M A ^a   Yacoub, Magdi H ^b   Edwards, Sue ^b   Bekkers, Jos A ^a   Roos Hesselink, Jolien W ^a   Kappetein, A Pieter ^a   Takkenberg, Johanna J M ^a   Bogers, Ad J J C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b National Heart and Lung Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; DEATH; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ABSCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; ENDOCARDITIS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71649084940     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.08.019     Document Type: Article

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