Evaluation of the left atrial appendage with real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography implications for catheter-based left atrial appendage closure

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 514-523

  Nucifora, Gaetano ^a   Faletra, Francesco F ^a   Regoli, François ^a   Pasotti, Elena ^a   Pedrazzini, Giovanni ^a   Moccetti, Tiziano ^a   Auricchio, Angelo ^a  

^a DIVISION OF CARDIOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage; Real time three dimensional transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80555157636     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.963892     Document Type: Article

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