Pitfalls of anatomical aortic valve area measurements using two-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography and the potential of three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-376

  Nakai, Hiromi ^a   Takeuchi, Masaaki ^a   Yoshitani, Hidetoshi ^a   Kaku, Kyoko ^a   Haruki, Nobuhiko ^a   Otsuji, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Aortic valve area; Three dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography; Two dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUITY EQUATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKULL BASE; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77951984926     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep220     Document Type: Article

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