How not to miss a bicuspid aortic valve in the echocardiography laboratory

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-55

  Tirrito, Salvatore J ^a,c   Kerut, Edmund Kenneth ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b HEART CLINIC OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^c Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicuspid aortic valve; Congenital heart disease; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTA VALVE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 13244250042     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2005.04074.x     Document Type: Article

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