Usefulness of live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in diagnosing acquired left ventricular-right atrial communication misdiagnosed as severe pulmonary hypertension by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 224-227

  Hansalia, Sachin ^a   Manda, Jayaprakash ^a   Pothineni, Koteswara Rao ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired gerbode type defect; Acquired left ventricular right atrial communication; Three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography; Two dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED LEFT VENTRICULAR RIGHT ATRIAL COMMUNICATION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 58649089814     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00861.x     Document Type: Article

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