Mitral Valve Regurgitation

References

Citations

  1. Bonow RO, et al. (2006) ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing committee to revise the 1998 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease). Circulation, 114(5): e84–e231.

  2. Curtin RJ, Griffin BP (2006). Valvular heart disease. In DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., ACP Medicine, section 1, chap. 11. New York: WebMD.

Other Works Consulted

  • Bonow RO, et al. (2005). Task Force 3: Valvular heart disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 45 (8): 1334–1340.

  • Otto CM, Bonow RO (2008). Valvular heart disease. In P Libby et al,. eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 8th ed., pp. 1625–1692. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

  • Rodriguez L, Gillinov AM (2007). Mitral valve disease. In EJ Topol, ed., Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.


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Author: Robin Parks, MSLast Updated: March 27, 2008
Medical Review: E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Stephen Fort, MD, MRCP, FRCPC - Interventional Cardiology

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