Hemodynamic assessment of patients with low-flow, low-gradient valvular aortic stenosis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 657-661

  Blitz, Lawrence R ^a   Herrmann, Howard C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DOBUTAMINE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0030587286     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00389-0     Document Type: Article

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