Persistent anemia in otherwise asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis: A possible indication for valve replacement?

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 400-402

  Leibovitz, Eyal ^a,b   Harpaz, David ^a,b   Elly, Itzhak ^b   Klepfish, Abraham ^a,b   Gavish, Dov ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anemia; Angiodysplasia; Aortic stenosis; von Willebrand factor

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

AGED; ANEMIA; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANGIODYSPLASIA; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 3242888211     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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