Comparison of left atrial size by freehand scanning three-dimensional echocardiography and two-dimensional echacardiography

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-24

  Kawai, J ^a   Tanabe, Kazuaki ^a   Wang, C L ^a   Tani, T ^a   Yagi, T ^a   Shiotani, H ^b   Morioka, S ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Left atrium; Volume

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART SIZE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 1242275073     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-2167(03)00050-7     Document Type: Article

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