Quantitative stress echocardiography in chronic aortic and mitral regurgitation

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 119-127

  Klues, Heinrich G ^b,c   Rüdelstein, Ralph ^b   Wachter, Martin V ^b   Kleinhans, Eduard ^a   Fleig, Alfons ^b   Joachim, Carsten ^b   Büll, Udalrich ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^b  

^a Medical Clinic I   (Germany)

^b University Hospital   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

aortic and mitral regurgitation; left ventricular function; quantitative stress echocardiography; radionuclide angiography

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

EID: 0030934365     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00699.x     Document Type: Article

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