Compelling argument for an agitated saline bubble study prior to cardiac transplantation

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 446-448

  Kalra, Nishant ^a   Amabile, Orazio L ^a   Copeland, Jack G ^a   Sorrell, Vincent L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANOXIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 67650757508     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00766.x     Document Type: Article

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