Re-operations for aortic allograft root failure: Experience from a 21-year single-center prospective follow-up study

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-42

  Bekkers, Jos A ^a   Klieverik, Loes M A ^a   Raap, Goris Bol ^a   Takkenberg, Johanna J M ^a   Bogers, Ad J J C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allograft aortic root replacement; Aortic valve; Re operation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC ALLOGRAFT ROOT FAILURE; AORTIC ALLOGRAFT ROOT IMPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART ABSCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STRUCTURAL VALVE DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENDOCARDITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957992223     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.11.025     Document Type: Article

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