Gender-associated differences in left ventricular geometry in patients with aortic valve disease and effect of distinct overload subsets

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 475-480

  Rohde, Luis E P ^a   Zhi, Guang ^a   Aranki, Sary F ^a   Beckel, Nicole E ^a   Lee, Richard T ^a   Reimold, Sharon C ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030768895     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00398-6     Document Type: Article

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