Stepwise valve deployment decreases the risk of incorrect valve positioning during transapical aortic valve implantation

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 555-556

  Madershahian, N ^a   Scherner, M ^a   Strauch, J ^a   Wahlers, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; BALLOON CATHETER; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; LETTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867293845     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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