Transesophageal echocardiography: A complementary view of the heart

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-75

  Agricola, Eustachio ^a   Oppizzi, Michele ^a   Melisurgo, Giulio ^a   Margonato, Alberto ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute cardiac syndrome; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac embolism; Endocarditis; Interventional cardiac procedures; Mitral regurgitation; Prosthetic valves; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

AORTA DISSECTION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMBOLISM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART TUMOR; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AORTA ANEURYSM; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ECHOGRAPHY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBOSIS;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 2342437831     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14779072.2.1.61     Document Type: Review

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