Spontaneous Echocardiographic Contrast in the Ascending Aorta Mimicking the Appearance of Aortic Dissection in a Patient with a Left Ventricular Assist Device

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 193-195

  Nicolson, Dermot G ^b   Porto, Italo ^b   Westaby, Stephen ^b   Boardman, Phil ^b   Banning, Adrian P ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Left ventricular assist device; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; BACTEREMIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1442348176     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03015.x     Document Type: Article

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