Definitive diagnosis of cor triatriatum with common atrium by three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in an adult

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 303-306

  Baweja, Gurpreet ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,c   Kirklin, James K ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b Kentucky   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cor triatriatum; Partial atrio ventricular septal defect; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMMON ATRIUM; COR TRIATRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

COR TRIATRIATUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 1842791825     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03095.x     Document Type: Article

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