Graft selection for aortic root replacement in complex active endocarditis: Does it matter?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 480-487

  Jassar, Arminder Singh ^a   Bavaria, Joseph E ^a   Szeto, Wilson Y ^a   Moeller, Patrick J ^a   Maniaci, Jon ^a   Milewski, Rita K ^a   Gorman III, Joseph H ^a   Desai, Nimesh D ^a   Gorman, Robert C ^a   Pochettino, Alberto ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; COMPOSITE GRAFT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ABSCESS; HEART ARREST; HEART BLOCK; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REINFECTION; REOPERATION; SEPTICEMIA; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DEBRIDEMENT; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNOTOMY;

EID: 84856082745     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.09.074     Document Type: Article

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