Prevalence of right-to-left atrial shunting in a healthy population: detection by Valsalva maneuver contrast echocardiography

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1984, Pages 1478-1480

  Lynch, John J ^a   Schuchard, Gregory H ^a   Gross, Charles M ^a   Wann, L Samuel ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; HEART; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMAN; MALE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VALSALVA'S MANEUVER;

EID: 0021244578     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(84)91617-5     Document Type: Article

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