Three dimensional echocardiography: Approaches and clinical utility

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 390-397

  Johri, Amer M ^a   Passeri, Jonathan J ^a   Picard, Michael H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 77649212972     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.132803     Document Type: Article

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