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[Surgery of the heart valves: prosthetic replacement versus repair (1)]
1Service de Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire, Université de Liège.
Revue Medicale De Liege
|August 26, 1998
Abstract:
The surgical management of valvular heart disease nowadays includes the use of various valvular substitutes and sophisticated reparative surgical techniques. Characteristics and indications of these different surgical options are discussed and the objective criteria that justify the use of a given technique in a given clinical situation are provided.