A rare cause of sudden vision loss in a young male: Papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 425-429

  Ergun, Kumral ^a,d   Golbasi, Zehra ^a   Cagli, Kerim ^a   Altinsoy, Ali ^b   Ulas, Mahmut Mustafa ^a   Temucin, Tulay ^a   Arat, Nurcan ^a   Topaloglu, Serkan ^a   Deveci, Bulent ^c   Ertan, Aylin ^b  

^a TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Kudret Eye Hospital   (Turkey)

^c KONYA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^d Department of Pathology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Heart valves; Papillary fibroelastoma; Retinal artery embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; FIBROELASTOMA; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; BLINDNESS; EMBOLISM; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION;

EID: 33947432014     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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