Impact of tissue harmonic imaging on the assessment of rheumatic mitral stenosis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 573-576

  Prior, David L ^a   Jaber, Wael A ^a   Homa, David A ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Mayer Sabik, Ellen ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0034283892     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)01021-3     Document Type: Article

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