Delayed left atrial wall dissection after mitral valve replacement

Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-261

  Messaoud, Idir ^a   Deville, Claude ^a   Roudaut, Raymond ^a  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Left atrial pseudoaneurysm; Left atrial wall dissection; Mitral valve calcification; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034001603     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2000.tb01133.x     Document Type: Article

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