Illustration of the Additional Value of Real-time 3-dimensional Echocardiography to Conventional Transthoracic and Transesophageal 2-dimensional Echocardiography in Imaging Muscular Ventricular Septal Defects: Does This Have Any Impact on Individual Patient Treatment?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1511-1519

  Mercer Rosa, Laura ^a   Seliem, Mohamed A ^a   Fedec, Anysia ^a   Rome, Jonathan ^a   Rychik, Jack ^a   Gaynor, J William ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEART BEAT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; STANDARD; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33751338080     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.06.015     Document Type: Article

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