Guide of clinical practice on the treatment of the valvulopatías;Guía de práctica clínica sobre el tratamiento de las valvulopatías

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Vahanian, Alec ^a,b   Baumgartner, Helmut ^a   Bax, Jeroen ^a   Butchart, Eric ^a   Dion, Robert ^a   Filippatos, Gerasimos ^a   Flachskampf, Frank ^a   Hall, Roger ^a   Iung, Bernard ^a   Kasprzak, Jaroslaw ^a   Nataf, Patrick ^a   Tornos, Pilar ^a   Torracca, Lucia ^a   Wenink, Arnold ^a   Priori, Silvia G ^a   Blanc, Jean Jacques ^a   Budaj, Andrzej ^a   Camm, John ^a   Dean, Veronica ^a   Deckers, Jaap ^a   Dickstein, Kenneth ^a   Lekakis, John ^a   McGregor, Keith ^a   Metra, Marco ^a   Morais, João ^a   Osterspey, Ady ^a   Tamargo, Juan Luis ^a   Zamorano, José Luis ^a   Angelini, Annalisa ^a   Antunes, Manuel ^a   García Fernández, Miguel Ángel ^a   Gohlke Baerwolf, Christa ^a   Habib, Gilbert ^a   McMurray, John ^a   Otto, Catherine ^a   Pierard, Luc ^a   Pomar, José L ^a   Prendergast, Bernard ^a   Rosenhek, Raphael ^a   Uva, Miguel Sousa ^a   more..

^a Hôpital Bichat AP HP ^*

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VALVULOPLASTY;

EID: 34547737878     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: 15792242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules25112536     Document Type: Review

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