Echocardiographic follow-up after heart valve replacement

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-85

  Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 75349095920     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2008.152074     Document Type: Review

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