Clinical usefulness of the effective regurgitant orifice area determined by transesophageal echocardiography in patients with eccentric aortic regurgitation

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 580-586

  Sato, Yoshihiro ^a   Kawazoe, Kohei ^a   Kamata, Junya ^a   Izumoto, Hiroshi ^a   Kitahara, Hiroto ^a   Tasai, Kimitaka ^a   Eishi, Kiyoyuki ^a   Nakai, Kenji ^a   Nasu, Masataka ^a   Hiramori, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 12644301195     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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