Infective Endocarditis Caused byNeisseria cinereain a 7-Year-Old Girl Who Had Undergone Surgical Pulmonary Valve Replacement
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Aortic valve surgery in patients who had undergone surgical myocardial revascularization previously.
OBJECTIVES A very high percentage of patients submitted to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) develop symptomatic aortic disease requiring surgery upon ageing. The surgical risk of the redo procedure is controversial. We describe our recent experience with patients submitted to this surgery under such conditions. METHODS From July 1999 to July 2010, 51 patients (mean age, 70.3 ± 7.0 years...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Ewha Medical Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2234-3180,2234-2591
DOI: 10.12771/emj.2017.40.4.171