Improved evaluation of the location and mechanism of mitral valve regurgitation with a systematic transesophageal echocardiography examination

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1205-1212

  Lambert, A Stephane ^a,b   Miller, Joseph P ^a   Merrick, Scot H ^a   Schiller, Nelson B ^a   Foster, Elyse ^a   Muhiudeen Russell, Isobel ^a   Cahalan, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032990215     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199906000-00004     Document Type: Article

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