Congenital heart diseases in aged patients: Clinical features, diagnosis, and therapeutic indications based on the analysis of a twenty five-year medline search

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 293-296

  Rigatelli, Gianluca ^a,c   Rigatelli, Giorgio ^b  

^a EndoCardio Vascular Therapy Research   (Italy)

^b Mater Salutis Hospital of Legnago   (Italy)

^c EndoCardioVascular Therapy Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Elderly; Geriatric cardiology

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GERIATRIC CARE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MEDLINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDLINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27644574540     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.crd.0000145928.08280.ef     Document Type: Review

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