Severe calcification of the lateral mitral annulus in constrictive pericarditis: A potential pitfall for the use of echocardiographic tissue Doppler imaging

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 403-405

  Butz, Thomas ^a   Langer, Christoph ^a   Scholtz, Werner ^a   Jategaonkar, Smita ^a   Bogunovic, Nikola ^a   Horstkotte, Dieter ^a   Faber, Lothar ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annular calcification; Constrictive pericarditis; Mitral annulus; Multi detector computed tomography; Restrictive cardiomyopathy; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIASTOLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MITRAL ANNULUS CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE CALCIFICATION; SPLENOMEGALY; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43449092185     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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