Pocket-sized transthoracic echocardiography device for the measurement of cardiac chamber size and function

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1092-1096

  Fukuda, Shota ^a   Shimada, Kenei ^a   Kawasaki, Toshihiro ^a   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a   Maeda, Kumiko ^a   Inanami, Hitoshi ^a   Yoshida, Ken ^a   Jissho, Satoshi ^a   Taguchi, Haruyuki ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^b   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

^a Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Imaging; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM RUPTURE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; POPULATION; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67649880264     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-1076     Document Type: Article

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