Transpulmonary contrast echocardiography: Effects on delineation of endocardial border, assessment of wall motion and interobserver variability in stress echocardiograms of limited image quality

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 549-554

  Schnaack, Susanne D ^a   Siegmund, Patrick ^a   Spes, Christoph H ^a   Tammen, Andres R ^a   Theisen, Karl ^a   Angermann, Christiane E ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Dobutamine; Stress echocardiography; Transpulmonary contrast echocardiography

Indexed keywords

BY 963; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033813822     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200010000-00006     Document Type: Article

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