Usefulness of echocardiographic determined tricuspid regurgitation in predicting event-free survival in severe heart failure secondary to idiopathic-dilated cardiomyopathy or to ischemic cardiomyopathy.

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Published in Am J Cardiol on November 15, 1998

Authors

J Hung1, T Koelling, M J Semigran, G W Dec, R A Levine, T G Di Salvo

Author Affiliations

1: Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Failure and Transplantation Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.

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