Impact of contrast-enhanced echocardiography on the diagnostic algorithm of acute aortic dissection

European Heart Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 472-479

  Evangelista, Artur ^a   Avegliano, Gustavo ^a   Aguilar, Rio ^a   Cuellar, Hug ^a   Igual, Albert ^b   González Alujas, Teresa ^a   Rodríguez Palomares, Jose ^a   Mahia, Patricia ^a   García Dorado, David ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b Servei de Cirurgia Cardiaca   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Contrast echocardiography; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77249156773     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp505     Document Type: Article

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