The Incidence and Clinical Course of Caseous Calcification of the Mitral Annulus: A Prospective Echocardiographic Study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 828-833

  Deluca, Giovanni ^a   Correale, Michele ^b   Ieva, Riccardo ^b   Salvatore, Bibiana Del ^c   Gramenzi, Silvana ^d   Di Biase, Matteo ^b  

^a Barletta Civic Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^d FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caseous calcification of the mitral annulus; Intracardiac mass; Mitral valve disease; Tumorlike mass

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE ANNULUS CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE ANNULUS CASEOUS CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 45849123272     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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