Improved assessment of pathological regurgitation in patients with prosthetic heart valves by multiplane transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 363-373

  Kupferwasser, Iri ^a,c   Mohr Kahaly, Susanne ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^b   Nolting, Axel ^a   Dohmen, Guido ^a   Oelert, Hellmut ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiplane transesophageal echocardiography; Perivalvular leakages; Prosthetic dysfunction; Prosthetic heart valves

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0030855623     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00736.x     Document Type: Article

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