Mitral annular calcium detected by transthoracic echocardiography is a marker for high prevalence and severity of coronary artery disease in patients undergoing coronary angiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1183-1186

  Adler, Yehuda ^a,b   Herz, Itzhak ^a,b   Vaturi, Mordehay ^a,b   Fusman, Renato ^a,b   Shohat Zabarski, Ronit ^a,b   Fink, Noam ^a,b   Porter, Avital ^a,b   Shapira, Yaron ^a,b   Assali, Abid ^a,b   Sagie, Alex ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032533203     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00596-7     Document Type: Article

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