Prosthetic valve obstruction: Diagnostic usefulness of cineradiography and multidetector-row computed tomography

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 517-519

  Aoyagi, S ^a   Fukunaga, S ^a   Arinaga, K ^a   Shojima, T ^a   Ueda, T ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular surgery; Heart disease; Heart valve surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CINERADIOGRAPHY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANNUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38149035216     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924712     Document Type: Article

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