The spectrum of severe rheumatic mitral valve disease in a developing country: Correlations among clinical presentation, surgical pathologic findings, and hemodynamic sequelae

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 177-183

  Marcus, Richard H ^a,b   Sareli, Pinhas ^a,c   Pocock, Wendy A ^a,d   Barlow, John B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0028058210     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-120-3-199402010-00001     Document Type: Article

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