A rare cause of mitral insufficiency: Left atrial anomalous band

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-85

  Baran, Türker ^a   Küçükoǧlu, M Serdar ^a,b   Ökçün, Bariş ^a   Çetin, Gürkan ^a   Hatemi, Ali Can ^a   Üner, Sinan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial; Band; Echocardiography; Mitral; Regurgitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MUSCLE MALFORMATION; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE;

EID: 0037228467     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.00013.x     Document Type: Article

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