Comparative assessment of left atrial appendage by transesophageal and combined two- and three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 918-924

  Karakus, Gultekin ^a   Kodali, Visali ^b   Inamdar, Vatsal ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,c   Suwanjutah, Thouantosaporn ^a   Pothineni, Koteswara R ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Left atrial appendage; Three dimensional echocardiography; Thrombus; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PECTINEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51349104921     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00758.x     Document Type: Article

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