Diagnosis and assessment of severity of aortic valve stenosis;Diagnose und schweregradbeurteilung bei aortenklappenstenose

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Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 644-649

  Franke, Andreas ^a   Kühl, Harald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Assessment of severity in valvular heart disease; Doppler echocardiography; Valvular orifice area

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH CENTER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33750543971     PISSN: 03409937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00059-006-2883-x     Document Type: Article

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