Usefulness of left atrial size in predicting postoperative symptomatic improvement in patients with aortic stenosis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 567-570

  Rossi, Andrea ^a   Tomaino, Marco ^a   Golia, Giorgio ^a   Santini, Francesco ^a   Pentiricci, Samuele ^a   Marino, Paolo ^a   Zardini, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0034283871     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)01019-5     Document Type: Article

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