The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 2 , Pages 263-272 , February 2010

Outcomes of reoperative aortic valve replacement after previous sternotomy

Received 30 April 2009 ,Revised 17 July 2009 ,Accepted 4 September 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

 Read at the Eighty-ninth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Boston, Mass, May 9–13, 2009.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01162-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.09.006

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 2 , Pages 263-272 , February 2010