The year in review: the surgical treatment of valvular disease-2011.
This review highlights important advances in techniques, guidelines, outcomes and innovations in valve surgery during 2011.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. harold.lazar@bmc.org
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D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods; D058385:Cardiac Valve Annuloplasty / Q000379:methods*; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome