Mitral valve repair with artificial chordae: A review of its history, technical details, long-term results, and pathology

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 684-691

  Bortolotti, Uberto ^a   Milano, Aldo D ^b   Frater, Robert W M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ARTIFICIAL CHORDA TENDINEA; CHORDA TENDINEA; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURING METHOD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CHORDAE TENDINEAE; DOGS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GLUTARAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MITRAL VALVE; PERICARDIUM; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856096671     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.09.015     Document Type: Review

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