Review of novel clinical applications of advanced, real-time, 3-dimensional echocardiography

Translational Research

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 149-164

  Burri, Manjula V ^a   Gupta, Dipti ^a   Kerber, Richard E ^a   Weiss, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D; 2 dimensional; 2 dimensional echocardiography; 2DE; 3 D; 3 dimensional; 4 D; 4 dimensional; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; cardiac resynchronization therapy; CMR; CRT; DCM; dilated cardiomyopathy; LAA; left atrial appendage; left ventricle; LV; mitral valve; MV; real time, 3 dimensional echocardiography; right ventricle; right ventricle outflow tract; RT3DE; RV; RVOT; SDI; speckle tracking echocardiography; STE; systolic dyssynchrony index; TEE; transesophageal echocardiogram; ventricular septal defect; VSD

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STRESS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MICROBUBBLE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REAL TIME THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84857287806     PISSN: 19315244     EISSN: 18781810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2011.12.008     Document Type: Review

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