MDCT detection of mitral valve calcification: Prevalence and clinical relevance compared with echocardiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1264-1269

  Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,b   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Das, Marco ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a   Kühl, Harald P ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Kelm, Malte ^a   Koos, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcification; CT; Heart; MDCT; Mitral valve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PREVALENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247566963     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.1002     Document Type: Article

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