Erroneous diagnosis of significant obstruction by Doppler in a patient with discrete subaortic membrane: Correct diagnosis by 3D-transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1004-1006

  Bandarupalli, Naveen ^a   Faulkner, Michael ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Pothineni, Koteswara R ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete subaortic membrane; Doppler echocardiography; Pressure recovery phenomenon; Subaortic stenosis; Three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography; Two dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRETE SUBAORTA MEMBRANE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; HIGH OUTPUT HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 53349128984     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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