Left-to-right shunt quantification in atrial septal defect by oximetric, radionuclide and doppler echocardiograpfflc techniques. Does a standard method exist?;Cuantificación del cortocircuito de la comunicacion interauricular mediante oximetria, isötopos y ecocardiografïa Doppier. AExiste un método de referencia?

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 2-9

  Evangelista, Arturo ^a   Aguadé, Santiago ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Doppler echocardiography; First pass ventriculography; Intracardiac shunt; Oximetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 0031613230     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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