3D echocardiography: The present and the future

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 169-185

  Shiota, Takahiro ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Echocardiography; Heart valve; Left ventricle

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VALVE; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 56249091099     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2008.09.004     Document Type: Review

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