Usefulness of live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in evaluation of prosthetic valve function: Research from the university of alabama at birmingham

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1236-1249

  Singh, Preeti ^a   Inamdar, Vatsal ^a   Hage, Fadi G ^a,b   Kodali, Visali ^a   Karakus, Gultekin ^a   Suwanjutah, Thouantosaporn ^a   Hsiung, Ming C ^c   Nanda, Navin C ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHENG HSIN REHABILITATION MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Live real time three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography; Prosthetic valve; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72849142068     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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