Valvular disease: The private life of tissue valves

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 424-426

  Yacoub, Magdi H ^a   El Hamamsy, Ismail ^b  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; AGED; AORTA VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954971165     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2010.98     Document Type: Short Survey

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