Incremental value of three-dimensional over two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of acute dysfunction of mechanical mitral valve prosthesis

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 885-887

  Pattabiraman, Vivekananda ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a   Iqbal, Fahad ^a   Singh, Preeti ^a   Koneru, Jayant ^a   Akins, Chris ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

bileaflet mechanical valve; mitral valve prosthesis; mitral valve replacement; three dimensional echocardiography; three dimensional transesophageal echocardiography; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955813165     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01261.x     Document Type: Article

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