Use of saline contrast echo timing to distinguish intracardiac and extracardiac shunts: Failure of the 3- to 5-beat rule

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1127-1130

  Freeman, Jonathan A ^a   Woods, Timothy D ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Echocardiography; Patent foramen ovale; Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation; Shunt; Stroke

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 54849404952     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00741.x     Document Type: Article

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