Autograft and pulmonary allograft performance in the second post-operative decade after the Ross procedure: Insights from the Rotterdam Prospective Cohort Study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2213-2224

  Mokhles, M Mostafa ^a   Rizopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Andrinopoulou, Eleni R ^a   Bekkers, Jos A ^a   Roos Hesselink, Jolien W ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a,b   Bogers, Ad J J C ^a   Takkenberg, Johanna J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Allograft; Aortic valve; Autograft; Pulmonary valve; Surgery; Survival; Valvular echocardiographic data

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AUTOGRAFT; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ALLOGRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REOPERATION; REVIEW; ROSS PROCEDURE; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VALVE; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866117168     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs173     Document Type: Review

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