Intermittent acute aortic regurgitation of a mechanical bileaflet aortic valve prosthesis: Diagnosis and clinical implications

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 446-449

  Cianciulli, Tomás Francisco ^a,b   Saccheri, María Cristina ^a,b   Lax, Jorge Alberto ^a   Guidoin, Robert ^c   Zhang, Ze ^c   Guerra, Juan E ^a   Prezioso, Horacio Alberto ^a   Vidal, Luis A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE AGUDOS DR COSME ARGERICH   (Argentina)

^b Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute prosthetic valve dysfunction; Cinefluoroscopy; Intermittent aortic regurgitation; Transthoracic echocardiography; Tri technologies prosthesis valve

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64749113346     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jen320     Document Type: Article

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