Recent advances in echocardiography

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-96

  Naqvi, Tasneem Z ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand held ultrasound devices; Intracardiac echocardiography; Myocardial perfusion echocardiography; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

FS 069; PERFLUTREN; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; INSTRUMENTATION; MITRAL VALVE;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 2342443361     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14779072.2.1.89     Document Type: Review

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