Doppler Echocardiography in Adults With Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis: Diagnostic Utility and Cost-effectiveness

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 2553-2560

  Otto, Catherine M ^a,b   Pearlman, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0024263995     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1988.00380120023006     Document Type: Article

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