Clinical utility of 3-dimensional echocardiography in the evaluation of tricuspid regurgitation caused by pacemaker leads

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1465-1470

  Seo, Yoshihiro ^a   Ishizu, Tomoko ^a   Nakajima, Hideki ^b   Sekiguchi, Yukio ^a   Watanabe, Shigeyuki ^a   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pacing; Valvular diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 50549090931     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0227     Document Type: Article

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