Reduction aortoplasty: Safe and durable treatment for borderline dilatation in selected patients

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 584-590

  Niclauss, Lars ^a   Delay, Dominique ^a   Ruchat, Patrick ^a   Von Segesser, Ludwig Karl ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA DILATATION; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTOPLASTY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MUSCLE RESECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REDUCTION AORTOPLASTY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; SURGICAL MESH; AORTA ANEURYSM; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871873562     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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