Functional evaluation of the bileaflet mechanical valve in the aortic position using dobutamine-stress echocardiography - Is a 23-mm prosthetic valve adequately large enough? -

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 817-823

  Tsukamoto, Masaru ^a,b   Inoue, Satomi ^a   Ito, Toshiro ^a   Hachiro, Yoshikazu ^a   Muraki, Satoshi ^a   Abe, Tomio ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bileaflet mechanical valve; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Valve area index; Valve prosthesis patient mismatch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BJOERK SHILEY VALVE PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 0031744310     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.62.817     Document Type: Article

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