Detection of right to left shunts in decompression sickness in divers

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 377-378

  Kerut, Edmund K ^a,b,c,d   Truax, Walter D ^a   Borreson, Thor E ^a   Van Meter, Keith W ^a   Given, Michael B ^a   Giles, Thomas D ^a  

^a Cardiovascular Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b HEART CLINIC OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^c Culicchia Neurologic Res Foundation   (United States)

^d Louisiana Stt University Eye Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIVING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0031056961     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00768-0     Document Type: Article

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