Early appearance of echo-contrast simulating an intracardiac shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis and intrapulmonary shunting

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 379-381

  Naqvi, Tasneem Z ^a,b,c   Nagai, Tomoo ^a,b   Atar, Shaul ^a,b   Siegel, Robert J ^a,b  

^a UCLA School of Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEROLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

AGED; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036548361     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.116827     Document Type: Article

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