Feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of quantitative assessment of mechanical prostheses leaflet motion by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography in suspected prosthetic valve dysfunction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-100

  Muratori, Manuela ^a   Montorsi, Piero ^a   Teruzzi, Giovanni ^a   Celeste, Fabrizio ^a   Doria, Elisabetta ^a   Alamanni, Francesco ^a   Pepi, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; CARDIOVERSION; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYNAMICS; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MOTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 29244471577     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.07.112     Document Type: Article

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