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Mitral valve replacement via right thoracotomy approach for prevention of mediastinitis in a female patient with long-term uncontrolled diabetes mellitus: a case report

A 76-year-old woman with a history of percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy and repeated hospital admissions due to heart failure was referred for an operation for severe mitral valve stenosis. She presented with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cerebral infarction with stenosis of right in...

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Autores principales: Fukunaga, Naoto, Hashimoto, Takashi, Ozu, Yasuhisa, Komori, Shigeru, Shomura, Yu, Fujiwara, Hiroshi, Nasu, Michihiro, Okada, Yukikatsu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20478046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-38