Echocardiography-based Spectrum of Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation: The Frequency of Apparently Idiopathic Tricuspid Regurgitation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 405-408

  Mutlak, Diab ^a   Lessick, Jonathan ^a   Reisner, Shimon A ^a   Aronson, Doron ^a   Dabbah, Salim ^a   Agmon, Yoram ^a  

^a Echocardiography Laboratory   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33947731724     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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