Initial clinical experience with a hand-held device (Thrombocheck©) for the detection of bileaflet prosthetic valve malfunction

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 476-480

  Ben Zekry, S ^a,b   Sagie, A ^a,b   Ben Dor, I ^a,b   Weisenberg, D A ^a,b   Nukrian, H ^a,b   Battler, A ^a,b   Shapira, Yaron ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART VALVE; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 27744504524     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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