Epicardial Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery: A Preliminary Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2254-2259

  De Castro, Stefano ^a   Salandin, Valeria ^b   Cavarretta, Elena ^a,c   Salvador, Loris ^b   Valfré, Carlo ^b   Caselli, Stefano ^a   Di Michele, Sara ^a   Faletra, Francesco ^d   Pandian, Natesa G ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b General Hospital of Treviso   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d DIVISION OF CARDIOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANOMALY; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MORPHOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751216153     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.04.087     Document Type: Article

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