Aortic valve reconstruction in myxomatous degeneration of aortic valves: Are fenestrations a risk factor for repair failure?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 660-664

  Schäfers, Hans Joachim ^a   Langer, Frank ^a   Glombitza, Petra ^a   Kunihara, Takashi ^a   Fries, Roland ^b   Aicher, Diana ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Gotthard Schettler Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILATATION; FENESTRATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERICARDIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77049103806     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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