Evaluation of cardiac involvement in hypereosinophilic syndrome: Complementary roles of transthoracic, transesophageal, and contrast echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 689-691

  Shah, Rajesh ^a   Ananthasubramaniam, Karthik ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Hypereosinophilia; Hypereosinophilic syndrome; Thrombus; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME;

EID: 33747873403     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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