SHU 508 A (Levovist)-enhanced Doppler echocardiography improves the assessment of valvular heart disease

Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 363-372

  Lepper, Wolfgang ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Franke, Andreas ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Von Bibra, Helene ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Becher, Harald ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Holz, Kerstin ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Nabauer M ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Vered, Zvi ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Hoffmann, Rainer ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Hanrath, Peter ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Doppler echocardiography; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0034926337     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2001.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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