Non-Invasive Flow Measurement of a Rotary Pump Ventricular Assist Device Using Quantitative Contrast Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 324-329

  Schwarz, Karl Q ^a   Parikh, Sachin S ^a   Chen, Xucai ^a   Farrar, David J ^a   Steinmetz, Sherry ^a   Ramamurthi, Sridevi ^a   Hallinan, William ^a   Massey, H Todd ^a   Chen, Leway ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; VAD; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; CANNULA; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; MINIPUMP; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR ASSISTED DEVICE;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RHEOLOGY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 77449143060     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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