Transthoracic versus transesophageal two-dimensional echo Doppler determination of flow velocity in the left atrial appendage

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-361

  Carranza, César ^a,b   Abufhele, Alejandro ^a   Cartes, Fanny ^a   Forero, Alejandro ^a  

^a Chilean Air Force Hospital   (Chile)

^b NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Flow velocity; Left atrial appendage; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030857162     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00735.x     Document Type: Article

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