An unusual cause of pulmonary vein stenosis: A case report and review of the literature

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 685-688

  Rosetti, Mihaela ^a   Tighe, Dennis A ^a   Chandok, Dinesh ^a   Gammie, James S ^b   Griffith, Bartley P ^b   Folland, Edward D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pulmonary veins; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CARNEY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PERICARDIUM; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; REOPERATION; THORACOTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 33747875260     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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