Establishment of a transcatheter aortic valve program and heart valve team at a Veterans Affairs facility

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 204, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 643-648

  Bakaeen, Faisal G ^a,b,c   Kar, Biswajit ^a,b,c   Chu, Danny ^a,b,c   Cornwell, Lorraine D ^a,b   Blaustein, Alvin ^a,b   Levine, Glenn N ^a,b   Paniagua, David ^a,b,c   Jneid, Hani ^a,b   Jensen, Corey ^b   Atluri, Prasad V ^b   Bechara, Carlos F ^a,b   Kougias, Panos ^a,b   Pawlak, Chris ^b   Bozkurt, Biykem ^a,b   Burdon, Thomas A ^d   Carabello, Blase A ^a,b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Cardiac surgery; Transcatheter aortic valve replacement; Valve replacement

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SURGICAL TRAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84868524413     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.07.017     Document Type: Article

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