Echocardiography in the emergency assessment of acute aortic syndromes

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Meredith, E Louise ^a   Masani, Navroz D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute aortic dissection; Acute aortic syndromes; Intramural haematoma; Transoesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA INTIMA; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE PROLAPSE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58449115500     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jen251     Document Type: Review

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