Improved Detection of Left Ventricular Thrombi and Spontaneous Echocontrast by Tissue Harmonic Imaging in Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1373-1381

  Mele, Donato ^a   Soukhomovskaia, Olga ^a   Pacchioni, Emanuele ^a   Merli, Elisa ^a   Avigni, Nicola ^a   Federici, Luca ^a   Levine, Robert A ^b   Ferrari, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPONTANEOUS ECHOCONTRAST; THROMBUS; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33845995836     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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