Diagnosing patent foramen ovale: Too Little or too much?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 349-351

  Kronzon, Itzhak ^a   Ruiz, Carlos E ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LENOX HILL HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

patent foramen ovale; transcranial Doppler; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CATHETER; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GOLD STANDARD; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; STROKE; THORAX PRESSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALSALVA MANEUVER; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; MANOMETRY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESSURE; TIME;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, RIGHT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MANOMETRY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 77954688365     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.12.010     Document Type: Editorial

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