Impact of atrial fibrillation on tricuspid and mitral annular dilatation and valvular regurgitation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 913-916

  Zhou, Xiaoyan ^a   Otsuji, Yutaka ^a   Yoshifuku, Shiro ^a   Yuasa, Toshinori ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Takasaki, Kunitsugu ^a   Matsukida, Keiko ^a   Kisanuki, Akira ^a   Minagoe, Shinichi ^a   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Mitral valve; Tricuspid valve; Valvular regurgitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRICUSPID VALVE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DILATATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0036792462     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.913     Document Type: Article

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