Three-dimensional echocardiography could distinguish a ventricular septal defect adjacent to asymptomatic ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-143

  Masaki, Nobuyuki ^a   Iwatsuka, Ryota ^a   Nagahori, Wataru ^a   Ohno, Masakazu ^a   Arakawa, Tetsuo ^a   Suzuki, Makoto ^a   Matsumura, Akihiko ^a   Hashimoto, Yuji ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysms; Doppler ultrasound; Echocardiography (three dimensional echocardiography); Heart defects (congenital, ventricular septal defect)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA SINUS ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART MURMUR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; MALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 43749091975     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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