Does isolated annular dilatation cause hemodynamically significant mitral regurgitation?

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 541-542

  Silbiger, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; LETTER; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956048934     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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