Flail aortic valve in systemic lupus erythematosus: Diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 431-434

  Mehta, Rajen K ^a   Agrawal, Gopal G ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Tirtaman, Connie ^a   Pacifico, Albert ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic valve; systemic lupus erythematosus; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEART VALVE PROLAPSE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030057867     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1996.tb00916.x     Document Type: Article

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