Contrast transesophageal echocardiographic detection of a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation draining into left lower pulmonary vein

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-394

  Ahmed, Sujood ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Nekkanti, Rajasekhar ^a   Yousif, Abdalla M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GAZE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; LUNG MALFORMATION; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 0038075108     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03049.x     Document Type: Article

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