Assessment of right ventricular function by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography improves accuracy and decreases interobserver variability compared with conventional two-dimensional views

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 619-624

  Chua, Sarah ^a,b   Levine, Robert A ^a   Yosefy, Chaim ^a   Handschumacher, Mark D ^a   Chu, John ^a   Qureshi, Anwer ^a   Neary, Jennifer ^a   Ton Nu, Thanh Thao ^a   Fu, Morgan ^b   Wu, Chiung Jen ^b   Hung, Judy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Right ventricle function; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 67650908410     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep013     Document Type: Article

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