Transesophageal echocardiography and the perioperative management of valvular heart disease

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 108-113

  Kraker, Philip K ^a   Davis, Elizabeth ^a   Barash, Paul G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 0030908238     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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