Cinefluoroscopic assessment of mechanical disc prostheses: Its value as a complementary method to echocardiography

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 664-673

  Cianciulli, Tomás F ^a   Lax, Jorge A ^a   Beck, Martín A ^a   Cerruti, Fausto E ^a   Gigena, Gerardo E ^a   Saccheri, María C ^a   Fernández, Eduardo ^b   Dorelle, Adriana N ^a   Leguizamón, Jorge H ^b   Prezioso, Horacio A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE AGUDOS DR COSME ARGERICH   (Argentina)

^b Clinica Bazterrica   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS;

EID: 27744599350     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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