A comparison of intracardiac and transesophageal echocardiography to detect left atrial appendage thrombus in a swine model

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-7

  Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a,c   Jacobson, Jason T ^b   Michele, John J ^a   Silvestry, Frank E ^a   Callans, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Intracardiac echocardiography; Left atrial appendage; Pulmonary vein isolation; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77950369331     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-009-9450-3     Document Type: Article

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