Real-time three dimensional echocardiography: Current and future clinical applications

Heart

Volumn 95, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 1881-1890

  Marsan, Nina Ajmone ^a   Tops, Laurens F ^a   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^b   Holman, Eduard R ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART CYCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; LUNG VEIN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FORECASTING; HEART ATRIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 70350733816     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2008.151613     Document Type: Article

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