Introducing transapical aortic valve implantation (part 1): Effect of a structured training program on clinical outcome in a series of 500 procedures

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 911-918

  Pasic, Miralem ^a   Unbehaun, Axel ^a   Dreysse, Stephan ^a   Buz, Semih ^a   Drews, Thorsten ^a   Kukucka, Marian ^a   Mladenow, Alexander ^a   D'Ancona, Giuseppe ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TRAINING; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875219940     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.12.057     Document Type: Article

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