Propensity score-matched analysis of aortic valve replacement by mini-thoracotomy

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 606-614

  Ruttmann, Elfriede ^a   Gilhofer, Thomas S ^a   Ulmer, Hanno ^a   Chevtchik, Orest ^a   Kocher, Alfred ^a   Schistek, Roland ^a   Laufer, Guenther ^a   Mueller, Ludwig C ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149269427     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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