Assessment of Valvular Heart Disease by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Review

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 73-82

  Christiansen, Jonathan P ^a   Karamitsos, Theodoros D ^b   Myerson, Saul G ^b  

^a NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RIGHT SIDED VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 78651426668     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2010.08.019     Document Type: Review

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