Assessment of the clinical feasibility of OptiGo™ for hand-held echocardiography

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81-89

  Kawai, Junichi ^a   Tanabe, Kazuaki ^a   Yagi, Toshikazu ^a   Fujii, Yoko ^a   Konda, Toshiko ^a   Sumida, Toshiaki ^a   Okada, Midori ^a   Yamaguchi, Kazuto ^a   Tani, Tomoko ^a   Yamabe, Kenji ^a   Morioka, Shigefumi ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnostic techniques; Doppler ultrasound; Echocardiography, transthoracic

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HAND HELD ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PORTABLE ULTRASOUND; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DISEASE; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037317455     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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