Evidence-based surgical management of acquired tricuspid valve disease

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 190-203

  Shinn, Sung Ho ^a   Schaff, Hartzell V ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LUNG DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SUTURING METHOD; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID ANNULOPLASTY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; TRICUSPID VALVE REPLACEMENT;

BALLOON VALVULOPLASTY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC VALVE ANNULOPLASTY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 84875533193     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2013.5     Document Type: Review

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