Spontaneous reduction of chronic atrial late fibrillation after mitral valvuloplasty. Echocardiographic evidence of restoration of mechanical atrial activity;Reduction spontanee d'une fibrillation auriculaire ancienne distance d'une valvuloplastie mitrale: Evidence ultrasonographique de la reprise d'une activitie auriculaire m'ecanique

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 835-839

  Haiat R ^b   Scemama, A ^b   Halphen, C ^b   Vermes, E ^b   Cornuejols, I ^b   Stoltz, J P ^b   Leroy, G ^a  

^a Servive Cardiologie et Urgences C   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Activite auriculaire mecanique; Echocardiographie doppler; Fibrillation auriculaire; Retour spontane en rythme sinusal; Retrecissement mitral

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REMISSION; TIME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030875023     PISSN: 00039683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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