Liquefaction necrosis of mitral annulus calcification: Detection and characterization with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Di Bella, Gianluca ^a   Masci, Pier Giorgi ^a   Ganame, Javier ^a   Dymarkowski, Steven ^a   Bogaert, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CATHETER; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; STEADY STATE; THORAX PAIN; TISSUE NECROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NECROSIS;

EID: 41149171103     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.729905     Document Type: Article

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