A prospective survey of patients with valvular heart disease in Europe: The Euro Heart Survey on valvular heart disease

European Heart Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1231-1243

  Iung, Bernard ^a   Baron, Gabriel ^a   Butchart, Eric G ^b   Delahaye, François ^c   Gohlke Bärwolf, Christa ^d   Levang, Olaf W ^e   Tornos, Pilar ^f   Vanoverschelde, Jean Louis ^g   Vermeer, Frank ⁱ   Boersma, Eric ^h   Ravaud, Philippe ^a   Vahanian, Alec ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Heart Centre   (Germany)

^e St Elizabeth Hospital   (Norway)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^h ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Bichat Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Echocardiography; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038267070     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-668X(03)00201-X     Document Type: Article

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