Three-dimensional echocardiography of the aortic valve: Feasibility, clinical potential, and limitations

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-138

  Kasprzak, Jaroslaw D ^b   Salustri, Alessandro ^a   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Aortic valve disease; Three dimensional reconstruction; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BJOERK SHILEY VALVE PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031906989     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00588.x     Document Type: Article

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