A prospective comparison of cardiac imaging using intracardiac echocardiography with transesophageal echocardiography in patients with atrial fibrillation: The intracardiac echocardiography guided cardioversion helps interventional procedures study

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 571-577

  Saksena, Sanjeev ^a   Sra, Jasbir ^b   Jordaens, Luc ^c   Kusumoto, Fred ^d   Knight, Bradley ^e   Natale, Andrea ^f   Kocheril, Abraham ^g   Nanda, Navin C ^h,i   Nagarakanti, Rangadham ^a   Simon, Ann Marie ^a   Viggiano, Mary A ^a   Lokhandwala, Tasneem ^a   Chandler, Mary L ^a  

^a Electrophysiology Research Foundation   (United States)

^b AURORA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

ⁱ Axio Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhythmia; Echocardiography; Imaging; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THROMBOSIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASES; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79952119098     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.936161     Document Type: Article

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