Barriers to surgery in severe aortic stenosis patients with Class I indications for aortic valve replacement

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 396-400

  Dua, Aman ^a   Dang, Patricia ^a   Shaker, Rimon ^a   Varadarajan, Padmini ^a   Pai, Ramdas G ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITALIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052914839     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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