Relationship between color M-mode echocardiography flow propagation and cardiac iron load on MRI in patients with thalassemia major

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 208-214

  Özbek, Orhan ^a   Acar, Kadir ^a   Kayrak, Mehmet ^a   Özbek, Seda ^a   Gül, Enes Elvin ^a   Uçar, Ramazan ^a   Paksoy, Yahya ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Iron overload; Magnetic resonance imaging; Thalassemia major

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART DISEASE; HEART IRON OVERLOAD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON OVERLOAD; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857946095     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.4581-11.1     Document Type: Article

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