Live three-dimensional transthoracic contrast echocardiographic assessment of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 686-689

  Frans, Ebenezer E ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Patel, Vinod ^a   Fonbah, William S ^a   Vengala, Srinivas ^a   Mehmood, Farhat ^a   Bodiwala, Kunal ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Contrast echocardiography; Live three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUTREN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; T WAVE INVERSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; THORAX;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORAX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33644648786     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.50154.x     Document Type: Article

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