Exercise echocardiography in the evaluation of severity of functional mitral regurgitation in patients with heart failure
โ Scribed by Yumiko Kobayashi; Yasushi Sakata; Yasuharu Takeda; Toshiaki Mano; Jun Yokogawa; Goro Matsumiya; Yoshiki Sawa; Satoshi Nakatani; Kazuhiro Yamamoto; Issei Komuro
- Book ID
- 107667684
- Publisher
- Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 396 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1349-0222
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