Usefulness of echocardiographic determined tricuspid regurgitation in predicting event-free survival in severe heart failure secondary to idiopathic-dilated cardiomyopathy or to ischemic cardiomyopathy

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1301-1303

  Hung, Judy ^a   Koelling, Todd ^a   Semigran, Marc J ^a   Dec, G William ^a   Levine, Robert A ^a   Di Salvo, Thomas G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032534045     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00624-9     Document Type: Article

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