Assessment of left atrial appendage by Live Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: Early experience and comparison with transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-132

  Agoston, Ildiko ^a   Xie, Tianrong ^a   Tiller, Frank L ^a   Rahman, Atiar M ^a   Ahmad, Masood ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Left atrial appendage; Three dimensional echocardiography; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33645075430     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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