Live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic assessment of mycotic pseudoaneurysm involving the descending thoracic aorta

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 340-343

  Rajdev, Sanjay ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Patel, Vinod ^a   Singh, Anurag ^a   Yelamanchili, Pridhvi ^a   Duncan, Kurt ^a   Mehmood, Farhat ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Descending thoracic aorta; Live three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography; Mycotic pseudoaneurysm; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTEROIDES; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTA, THORACIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 33645287305     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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