Guidelines of French Cardiac Society regarding the Doppler echocardiography indications;Recommandations de la Societe Francaise de Cardiologie concernant les indications de l'echocardiographie-Doppler

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1347-1380

  Malergue, M C ^a   Abergel, E ^a   Bernard, Y ^a   Bruntz, J F ^a   Chauvel, C ^a   Cohen, A ^a   Cormier, B ^a   Tribouilloy, C ^a  

^a 15 rue Ceis ^*  (France)

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DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HUMANS;

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