Live three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic assessment of ventricular noncompaction

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 611-620

  Bodiwala, Kunal ^a   Miller, Andrew P ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Patel, Vinod ^a   Vengala, Srinivas ^a   Mehmood, Farhat ^a   Upendram, Shailendra ^a   Frans, Ebenezer ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Left ventricular noncompaction; Live three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography; Right ventricular noncompaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICLE NONCOMPACTION;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 27744528985     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.40106.x     Document Type: Article

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