Redo in aortic homograft replacement: Transcatheter aortic valve as a valid alternative to surgical replacement

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1656-1657

  Dainese, Luca ^a   Fusari, Melissa ^a   Trabattoni, Piero ^a   Biglioli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION;

EID: 77952319441     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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