Agitated saline versus polygelatine for the echocardiographic assessment of patent foramen ovale

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1059-1065

  Cukon Buttignoni, Sonja ^b,c   Khorsand, Aliasghar ^a   Mundigler, Gerald ^a   Bergler Klein, Jutta ^a   Heger, Maria ^a   Zehetgruber, Manfred ^a   Baumgartner, Helmuth ^a   Binder, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c Via Pascoli ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; OXYPOLYGELATIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; GELATIN; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 4644299242     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.06.010     Document Type: Article

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