Echocardiography in aortic diseases: EAE recommendations for clinical practice

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 645-658

  Evangelista, Arturo ^a   Flachskampf, Frank A ^b   Erbel, Raimund ^c   Antonini Canterin, Francesco ^d   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^e   Rocchi, Guido ^f   Sicari, Rosa ^g   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^h   Zamorano, Jose ⁱ   Pepi, Mauro ^j   Breithardt, Ole A ^k   Plońska Gościniak, Edyta ^l  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d Pordenone Hospital   (Italy)

^e HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^h HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^l POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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Author keywords

Aortic diseases; Contrast echocardiography; Transoesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY DIAMETER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REVIEW; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 77956607258     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jeq056     Document Type: Review

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