A hole in the argument

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2385-2390

  Hegland, Donald D ^a   Kunz, Geoffrey A ^a   Harrison, J Kevin ^a   Wang, Andrew ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; SIMVASTATIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADHESION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HEART; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HIATUS HERNIA; LUNG; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADHESIONS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOXEMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATIGUE; FUNDOPLICATION; HEART; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 28244462448     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps050473     Document Type: Article

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