Age less than two years is not a risk factor for mortality after mitral valve replacement in children

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1228-1234

  Rafii, Daniela Y ^a   Davies, Ryan R ^a   Carroll, Sheila J ^b   Quaegebeur, Jan M ^a   Chen, Jonathan M ^b,c  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART BLOCK; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79953091420     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.11.058     Document Type: Article

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