Imaging the left atrial appendage with intracardiac echocardiography leveling the playing field

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 564-565

  Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a   Callans, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Echocardiography; Editorials; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EDITORIAL; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79952115325     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.960245     Document Type: Editorial

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