Echocardiography as a tool in the evaluation of conditions with a high likelihood of cardiogenic embolism

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 768-772

  Kronzon, Itzhak ^a,b   Tunick, Paul A ^a   Charney, Leon H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b New York Univerity School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic atherosclerosis; Cardiogenic embolism; Stroke; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVERSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CANCER; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARYNX DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TRACHEA INJURY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC;

EID: 33751575787     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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