Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography: A current view of what echocardiography can provide?

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 146-155

  Hage, Fadi G ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^b,c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac thrombus; Cardiac tumor; Cardiomyopathy; Congenital heart disease; Three dimensional echocardiography; Valvular disease

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE DISEASE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PULMONARY VALVE DISEASE; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 69549119801     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: 00194832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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