Transcatheter aortic valve implantation with "no Touch" of the aortic arch for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis associated with complex aortic atherosclerosis: Surgical techniques

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 501-503

  Bagur, Rodrigo ^a   Rodés Cabau, Josep ^a   Doyle, Daniel ^a   De Larochellière, Robert ^a   Villeneuve, Jacques ^a   Bertrand, Olivier F ^a   Dumont, Éric ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77956332671     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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