Specificity of Doppler echocardiography for the assessment of changes in valvular regurgitation: Comparison of side-by-side versus serial interpretation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1614-1621

  Fuchs, Shmuel ^a   Baffour, Richard ^a   Zhou, Yi Fu ^a   Shou, Matie ^a   Pierre, Anthony ^a   Tio, Fermin O ^b   Weissman, Neil J ^a   Leon, Martin B ^c   Epstein, Stephen E ^a   Kornowski, Ran ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b South Texas Inc   (United States)

^c LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0035035680     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01222-0     Document Type: Article

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