Transapical aortic valve implantation in 194 patients: Problems, complications, and solutions

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1463-1470

  Pasic, Miralem ^a   Buz, Semih ^a   Dreysse, Stephan ^a   Drews, Thorsten ^a   Unbehaun, Axel ^a   Klein, Christoph ^a   Kukucka, Marian ^a   Mladenow, Alexander ^a   Ivanitskaiakhn, Ekaterina ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASARCA; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ROOT; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC ANNULUS RUPTURE; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; APICAL PSEUDOANEURYSM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR THIRD DEGREE BLOCK; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FASCIOTOMY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOSTASIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARAVALVULAR LEAK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION; RISK REDUCTION; SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; TRANSAPICAL AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND INFECTION; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA VALVE; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 78049317753     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.05.072     Document Type: Article

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