Cor triatriatum sinister with and without left ventricular inflow obstruction: Visualization of the entire supravalvular membrane by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography. Impact on clinical management of individual patient

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 335-339

  Mercer Rosa, Laura ^a   Fedec, Anysia ^a   Gruber, Peter ^a   Seliem, Mohamed ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cor triatriatum; Echocardiography; RT3DE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COR TRIATRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COR TRIATRIATUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 33751034449     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2006.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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