Cardiac MRI is an important complementary tool to Doppler echocardiography in the management of patients with pulmonary regurgitation

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 316-328

  Sorrell, Vincent L ^a,b   Altbach, Maria I ^a   Kudithipudi, Vijayasree ^a   Squire, Scott W ^a   Goldberg, Stan J ^a   Klewer, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Doppler echocardiography; Pulmonary regurgitation; Right ventricle; Tetralogy of Fallot

Indexed keywords

AORTA; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33847112892     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00395.x     Document Type: Article

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