A New Simple Method to Estimate Pulmonary Regurgitation by Echocardiography in Operated Fallot: Comparison With Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Performance Test Evaluation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 496-503

  Festa, Pierluigi ^a   Ait Ali, Lamia ^a   Minichilli, Fabrizio ^b   Kristo, Ines ^a   Deiana, Mariolina ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b  

^a Fondazione G Monasterio CNR Regione Toscana   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Operated tetralogy of Fallot; Pulmonary regurgitation; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERFORMANCE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951665351     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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