Effect of contrast enhancement on transthoracic echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular regional wall motion

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1365-1368

  Hundley, W Gregory ^a,c   Kizilbash, Ali M ^a   Afridi, Imran ^a   Franco, Fatima ^a,b   Peshock, Ronald M ^a,b   Grayburn, Paul A ^a  

^a Dept Int Med ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032703973     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00577-9     Document Type: Article

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