Editorial: Balloon aortic valvuloplasty: Modern indications and techniques for a niche therapy

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 885-887

  Yamen, Eric ^a   Fearon, William F ^b  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HISTORY; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77954527268     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.10.68     Document Type: Editorial

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