Clinical Applicability for the Assessment of the Valvular Mitral Stenosis Severity with Doppler Echocardiography and the Proximal Isovelocity Surface Area (PISA) Method

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Lee, Tao Yu ^a   Hsu, Tsui Lieh ^b,c   Tseng, Chi Jen ^a   Chiao, Chia Ding ^a   Chiou, Chuen Wang ^a   Mar, Guang Yuan ^a   Liu, Chun Peng ^a   Lin, Shao Lin ^a   Chiang, Hung Tin ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL ISOVELOCITY SURFACE AREA METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0842313169     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03057.x     Document Type: Article

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