Aortic valve replacement for Libman-Sacks endocarditis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Keenan, Jack B ^a   Janardhanan, Rajesh ^b   Larsen, Brandon T ^a   Khalpey, Zain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; RIVAROXABAN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIASTOLIC HEART MURMUR; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; NON INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; PARESTHESIA; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT; AORTA VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, NON-INFECTIVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, NON-INFECTIVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991735097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2016-215914     Document Type: Article

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