CT evaluation of congenital heart disease in adults

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 388-396

  Wiant, Amanda ^a   Nyberg, Eric ^a   Gilkeson, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary imaging; Congenital heart; CT; Disease

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE ANOMALY; AORTIC VALVE APPARATUS ANOMALY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL VENOUS ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL ANOMALOUS PULMONARY VENOUS RETURN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUADRICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68149169703     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.2192     Document Type: Review

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