Relationship between platelet indices and spontaneous echo contrast in patients with mitral stenosis

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 865-870

  Akpek, Mahmut ^a   Kaya, Mehmet G ^a   Yarlioglues, Mikail ^a   Dogdu, Orhan ^a   Ardic, Idris ^a   Sahin, Omer ^a   Elcik, Deniz ^a   Ozdogru, Ibrahim ^a   Topsakal, Ramazan ^a   Oguzhan, Abdurrahman ^a   Ergin, Ali ^a   Kalay, Nihat ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Mean platelet volume; Mitral stenosis; Plateletcrit; Spontaneous echo contrast

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PLATELETS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84856390522     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer159     Document Type: Article

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