Effects of afterload reduction on vena contracta width in mitral regurgitation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 427-431

  Kizilbash, Ali M ^a   Willett, Duwayne L ^a   Brickner, M Elizabeth ^a   Heinle, Sheila K ^a   Grayburn, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENDOCARDITIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC VOLUME; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NITROPRUSSIDE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032145663     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00236-8     Document Type: Article

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