Editorial: Guidelines for the evaluation of prosthetic valves with echocardiography and doppler ultrasound: Value and limitations

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-93

  Hage, Fadi G ^a,b   Nanda, Navin C ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FLOW RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 76449101722     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01132.x     Document Type: Editorial

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