Twenty-year experience with the carbomedics mechanical valve prosthesis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 816-823

  Bouchard, Denis ^a   Mazine, Amine ^a   Stevens, Louis Mathieu ^b   Pellerin, Michel ^a   Cartier, Raymond ^a   Demers, Philippe ^a   Hébert, Yves ^a   Perrault, Louis P ^a   Carrier, Michel ^a   Lambert, Jean ^c  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARBOMEDICS PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANNUS; PARAVALVULAR REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE LEAFLET ENTRAPMENT; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896740571     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.09.098     Document Type: Article

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