Editorial: Balloon valvotomy during pregnancy

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 144-146

  Horstkotte, Dieter ^a   Fassbender, Dieter ^a   Piper, Cornelia ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG CONGESTION; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALVULOTOMY; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; FEMALE; NOTE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 21844472850     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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