Rapid Screening of Cardiac Patients with a Miniaturized Hand-Held Ultrasound Imager - Comparisons with Physical Examination and Conventional Two-Dimensional Echocardiography

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-245

  Xie, Tianrong ^a   Chamoun, Antonio J ^a   McCulloch, Marti ^a   Tsiouris, Nick ^a   Birnbaum, Yochai ^a   Ahmad, Masood ^a  

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

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Hand held; Physical examination; Screening; SonoHeart

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RELIABILITY; TELEMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 1842479200     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960270414     Document Type: Article

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