The squashball phenomenon: Highly mobile intracavitary echoes during transthoracic echocardiography after heart valve replacement

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-

  Jaussi, Andres ^a,b   Owlya, Reza ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mechanical prostheses; Mobile intracavitary contrast echoes; Second harmonic imaging; Valve replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032989923     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00798.x     Document Type: Article

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