Usefulness of phased-array intracardiac echocardiography for the assessment of left atrial mechanical "stunning" in atrial flutter and comparison with multiplane transesophageal echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 741-746

  Morton, Joseph B ^a   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a   Sparks, Paul B ^a   Morgan, John ^a   Kalman, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SINUS RHYTHM; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 0036804597     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02601-2     Document Type: Article

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