Fifteen years of experience with ATS mechanical heart valve prostheses

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1494-1500

  Sezai, Akira ^a   Hata, Mitsumasa ^a   Niino, Tetsuya ^a   Yoshitake, Isamu ^a   Kasamaki, Yuji ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a   Minami, Kazutomo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ATS VALVE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORTALITY; PARESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; SEPTICEMIA; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952323234     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.07.039     Document Type: Article

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