Transthoracic echocardiography for the diagnosis of left ventricular thrombosis in the postoperative care unit

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Saranteas, Theodosios ^a   Alevizou, Anastasia ^a   Tzoufi, Maria ^a   Panou, Fotios ^a   Kostopanagiotou, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SURGERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79651469130     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10025     Document Type: Article

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