High Prevalence of Clinically Silent Severe Mitral Regurgitation in Patients with Heart Failure: Role for Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1458-1461

  Varadarajan, Padmini ^a   Sharma, Sanjay ^a   Heywood, J Thomas ^a   Pai, Ramdas G ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOLOGIST; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART MURMURS; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33751321697     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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