Assessment of right ventricular size and function: Echo versus magnetic resonance imaging

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-31

  Puchalski, Michael D ^a   Williams, Richard V ^a   Askovich, Bojana ^a   Minich, L LuAnn ^a   Mart, Christopher ^a   Tani, Lloyd Y ^a  

^a PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Right ventricular size and function

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALVULOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIAC VOLUME; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33846460775     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2007.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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