High concordance of invasive and echocardiographic mean pressure gradients in patients with a mechanical aortic valve prosthesis

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 332-337

  Knebel, Fabian ^a   Gliech, Volker ^a   Walde, Torsten ^a   Eddicks, Stephan ^a   Konertz, Wolfgang ^a   Baumann, Gert ^a   Borges, Adrian C ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MALE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AORTA VALVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 24344433503     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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