Imaging of patients with congenital heart disease

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 101-115

  Roest, Arno A W ^a   De Roos, Albert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SCREENING; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; X RAY;

CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84856299610     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2011.162     Document Type: Review

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