Mitral Leaflet Separation Index: A New Method for the Evaluation of the Severity of Mitral Stenosis? Usefulness Before and After Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1119-1124

  Holmin, Caroline ^a,b   Messika Zeitoun, David ^a   Mezalek, Amel Tazi ^a   Brochet, Eric ^a   Himbert, Dominique ^a   Iung, Bernard ^a   Vahanian, Alec ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MITRAL LEAFLET SEPARATION; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BALLOON DILATATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34748889560     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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