Aortic root enlargement: Worth the effort?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 703-705

  Kulik, Alexander ^a  

^a Boca Raton Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA GRAFT; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BLEEDING; BODY SURFACE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EDITORIAL; HEART BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AORTA VALVE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTHESIS; SURGERY;

AORTIC VALVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 77956144726     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.05.012     Document Type: Editorial

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