Impact of valvular calcification on the diagnostic accuracy of transesophageal echocardiography for the detection of congenital aortic valve malformation

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 745-749

  Makkar, Akash ^a   Siddiqui, Tariq S ^a   Stoddard, Marcus F ^a   Lewis, Robert K ^a   Dawn, Buddhadeb ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Bicuspid aortic valve; Congenital aortic valve malformations; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANOMALY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; ARTIFACTS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34447639736     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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