Is robotic mitral valve repair a reproducible approach?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 628-633

  Cheng, Wen ^a   Fontana, Gregory P ^a   De Robertis, Michele A ^a   Mirocha, James ^a   Czer, Lawrence S C ^a   Kass, Robert M ^a   Trento, Alfredo ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETRACTOR; ROBOTICS; STROKE; SURGEON;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76749148586     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.10.047     Document Type: Article

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