Morphological assessment of left ventricular thrombus by live three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 649-655

  Sinha, Ashish ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Khanna, Deepak ^a   Dod, Harvinder S ^a   Vengala, Srinivas ^a   Mehmood, Farhat ^a   Agrawal, Gopal ^a   Upendram, Sailendra ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Clot lysis; Left ventricular thrombus; Live three dimensional echocardiography; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 7044240810     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.04062.x     Document Type: Article

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