Valvular heart disease: Focus on women

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 291-297

  Otto, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Valvular heart disease; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLE; VALVULOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 37349123047     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CRD.0b013e318156a798     Document Type: Review

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