Severe mitral regurgitation and heart failure due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus

Cardiology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-82

  Pozsonyi, Zoltán ^a,b   Tóth, Attila ^b   Vágó, Hajnalka ^b   Ádám, Zsófia ^c   Apor, Astrid ^b   Alotti, Nasri ^d   Sármán, Pál ^a   Merkely, Béla ^b   Karádi, István ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^d Cardiac Surgery Department   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Caseous calcification; Heart failure; Mitral annular regurgitation

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; COUMARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROPAFENONE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART PALPITATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MITRAL ANNULUS CASEOUS CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 79954596324     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326850     Document Type: Article

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