Doppler echocardiographic findings in patients with right ventricular infarction

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 297-301

  Mattioli, Anna Vittoria ^a   Bastia, Elisabetta ^a   Mattioli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous wave Doppler sonography; Right ventricular infarction; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING;

THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TRANSTHORACIC DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032080271     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1998.17.5.297     Document Type: Article

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