Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography: Technique and clinical applications

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 635-640

  Ahmad, M ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon dilatation; Coronary disease; Echocardiography, three dimensional; Heart ventricle; Mitral valve stenosis; Myocardium, pathology; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

BALLOON DILATATION; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0842313046     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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