Assessment of the St. Jude Medical Regent Prosthetic Valve by Continuous-Wave Doppler and Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-92

  Sezai, Akira ^a   Kasamaki, Yuji ^a   Abe, Keisuke ^a   Hata, Mitsumasa ^a   Sekino, Hisakuni ^a   Shimura, Kazuma ^a   Minami, Kazutomo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 76449085561     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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