Diagnosis of congenital unicuspid aortic valve in adult population: The value and limitation of transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1107-1112

  Chu, John W ^a   Picard, Michael H ^a   Agnihotri, Arvind K ^b   Fitzsimons, Michael G ^b  

^a Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; transesophageal echocardiography; unicuspid aortic valve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNICUSPID AORTIC VALVE;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78349249002     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01209.x     Document Type: Article

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