Prevalence of microbubbles associated with mechanical prosthetic cardiac valves: A prospective transesophageal echocardiography study

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 340-344

  Gencbay, Murat ^a,b   Turan, Fikret ^a   Yaymaci, Bengi ^a   Degertekin, Muzaffer ^a   Basaran, Yelda ^a   Dindar, Ismet ^a   Izgi, Akin ^a  

^a KOSUYOLU HEART AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Kosuyolu Kalp ve Arastirma Hastanesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031802770     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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