Echocardiography of the coronary sinus in adults

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 149-154

  D'Cruz, Ivan A ^a   Shala, M Bashar ^b   Johns, Cameila ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestive cardiac failure; Contrast echocardiography; Coronary sinus; Left superior vena cava; Two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY SINUS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034006228     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960230304     Document Type: Article

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