Echocardiographyin 2009: The future of clinical diagnosis

Future Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-49

  Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Echocardiography; Imaging

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PADGEM PROTEIN; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL HIBERNATION; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, DIASTOLIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MOLECULAR IMAGING;

EID: 73949102324     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.09.60     Document Type: Review

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