Actual management of patients with asymptomatic aortic valve disease: How practice fits with guidelines

American Heart Journal

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 696-703

  Iung, Bernard ^a   Messika Zeitoun, David ^a   Cachier, Agnès ^a   Delahaye, François ^b   Baron, Gabriel ^a   Tornos, Pilar ^c   Gohlke Bärwolf, Christa ^d   Boersma, Eric ^e   Ravaud, Philippe ^a   Vahanian, Alec ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d Heart Centre Bad Krozingen   (Germany)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33947372575     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2005.12.031     Document Type: Article

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