Correlation of the flow patterns among the four pulmonary veins as assessed by transesophageal echocardiography: Influence of significant mitral regurgitation

Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 256-263

  Hwang, Juey Jen ^a   Lin, Jer Min ^a   Hsu, Kwan Lih ^a   Lai, Ling Ping ^a   Lin, Jiunn Lee ^a   Tseng, Yung Zu ^a   Lee, Yuan Teh ^a   Lien, Wen Pin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mitral regurgitation; Pulmonary venous flow; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIASTOLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

AORTIC VALVE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY VEINS; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0032712761     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006920     Document Type: Article

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