Acute left atrial intramural wall dissection after mitral valve replacement

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 498-500

  Tang, David ^a   Liu, Hong ^b  

^a Mercy General Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac surgery; complications; left atrial dissection; mitral regurgitation; mitral valve replacement; mitral valve surgery; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MILRINONE; NESIRITIDE; NORADRENALIN;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOPLEGIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM INTRAMURAL WALL DISSECTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 79957775957     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: 15328422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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