Incremental value of live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in the assessment of left ventricular thrombi

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-72

  Duncan, Kurt ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Foster, William A A ^a   Mehmood, Farhat ^a   Patel, Vinod ^a   Singh, Anurag ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Left ventricular thrombi; Three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THROMBOSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33645048468     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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