Mobile echoes on prosthetic valves are not reproducible. Results and clinical implications of a multicentre study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 140-147

  Ionescu, A A ^a   Moreno De la Santa, P ^a   Dunstan, F D ^a   Butchart, E G ^a   Fraser, A G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart valve prostheses; Observer variation; Transoesophageal

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032911266     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1998.1151     Document Type: Article

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