Echocardiographic evaluation of atrial septal defects;Beurteilung von Vorhofseptumdefekten im Erwachsenenalter mittels echokardiographischer Verfahren

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 580-587

  Kucherer H ^a   Eisenbarth, A ^a   Hardt, S ^a   El Arousy, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

atrial septal defect; contrast; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029835126     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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