Diagnosis and surgical correction of cor triatriatum in an adult: Combined use of transesophageal and contrast echocardiography, and a review of literature

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 506-509

  Modi, Kalgi A ^a,b   Annamali, Senthilkumar ^a   Ernest, Kiel ^a   Pratep, C Reddy ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Contrast echocardiography; Cor triatriatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COR TRIATRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALBUMINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; COR TRIATRIATUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33748529315     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00250.x     Document Type: Article

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