Patient-prosthesis mismatch and strategies to prevent it during aortic valve replacement

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-51

  Apostolakis, Efstratios ^a   Baikoussis, Nikolaos G ^a   Papakonstantinou, Nikolaos A ^a   Goudevenos, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Aortic valve stenosis; Prosthesis patient mismatch; Stentless bioprosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; BODY MASS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS PATIENT MISMATCH; REOPERATION; REVIEW; STENTLESS BIOPROSTHESIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS FITTING; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79851499676     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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