Echocardiography and the general physician

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 940, 2004, Pages 84-88

  Heatlie, G J ^a   Giles, M ^b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AORTA DISSECTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; COR PULMONALE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART PERFUSION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG; LUNG EMBOLISM; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 1542269217     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.2003.010363     Document Type: Review

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