Homograft valve bank: Our experience in valve banking

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 299-306

  Verghese, Susan ^a,b   Padmaja, P ^a   Sindhu, B ^a   Elizabeth, S J ^a   Lesley, Nancy ^a   Cherian, K M ^a  

^a International Centre for Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Diseases   (India)

^b Frontier Lifeline Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Cardiac valve bank; Homograft; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CANDIDA; CRYOPRESERVATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART GRAFT; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOMOGRAFT VALVE BANK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; MITRAL VALVE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PERICARDIUM; PULMONARY VALVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CRYOPRESERVATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; INDIA; STERILIZATION; TISSUE BANKS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 9244233788     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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