Significant increase of aortic root volume and commissural area occurs prior to aortic valve opening

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-15

  Pang, David C ^a   Choo, Suk Jung ^a   Luo, Hong He ^a   Shomura, Y U ^a   Daniel, Suresh ^a   Nikolic, Srdjan ^a   Cheung, David T ^a   Oury, James H ^a   Duran, Carlos M G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b International Heart Institute Montana   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; HEART; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; SHEEP; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 1642633626     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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