Gender differences in clinical presentation and surgical outcome of aortic stenosis

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 539-545

  Fuchs, Christina ^a   Mascherbauer, Julia ^a   Rosenhek, Raphael ^a   Pernicka, Elisabeth ^a   Klaar, Ursula ^a   Scholten, Christine ^a   Heger, Maria ^a   Wollenek, Gregor ^a   Czerny, Martin ^a   Maurer, Gerald ^a   Baumgartner, Helmut ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950561980     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.186650     Document Type: Article

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