Grading of pulmonary right-to-left shunt with transthoracic contrast echocardiography: Does it predict the indication for embolotherapy?

Chest

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1288-1292

  Van Gent, Marco W F ^a   Post, Martijn C ^a   Snijder, Repke J ^a   Swaans, Martin J ^a   Plokker, Herbert W M ^a   Westermann, Cornelis J J ^a   Overtoom, Tim T ^a   Mager, Johannes J ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; RATING SCALE; SCREENING; SEX RATIO; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 65949089607     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-1266     Document Type: Article

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