Live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in the evaluation of post traumatic acquired thoracic aortic coarctation

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 470-472

  Singh, Preeti ^a   Hernandez, Carlos Martinez ^a   Singh, Balwinder ^a   Kuruba, Mahesh ^a   Samar, Amena ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired thoracic aortic coarctation; Three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography; Two dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA INJURY; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; B SCAN; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FIBROSIS; POST TRAUMATIC ACQUIRED THORACIC AORTIC COARCTATION; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBOSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; YOUNG ADULT; AORTIC COARCTATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951222426     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01190.x     Document Type: Article

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