Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic assessment of mitral regurgitation severity: Usefulness of qualitative and semiquantitative techniques

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 748-769

  Khanna, Deepak ^a   Miller, Andrew P ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Ahmed, Sujood ^a   Lloyd, Steven G ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Mitral regurgitation; Proximal isovelocity surface area; Quantitative Doppler; Regurgitant jet area; Three dimensional reconstruction echocardiography; Vena contracta area; Vena contracta width

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GOLD STANDARD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33644807329     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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