How accurately, reproducibly, and efficiently can we measure left ventricular indices using M-mode, 2-dimensional, and 3-dimensional echocardiography in children?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 946-953

  Lu, Xiuzhang ^a   Xie, Mingxing ^a   Tomberlin, David ^b   Klas, Berthold ^c   Nadvoretskiy, Vyacheslav ^a   Ayres, Nancy ^a   Towbin, Jeffrey ^a,d   Ge, Shuping ^a,d  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c TOMTEC IMAGING SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^d ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INTRAOBSERVER VARIABILITY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMPSON PRINCIPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 42649093771     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.11.034     Document Type: Article

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