Imaging the right heart: The use of integrated multimodality imaging

European Heart Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 949-960

  Buechel, Emanuela R Valsangiacomo ^a   Mertens, Luc L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Echocardiography; Multimodality imaging; Right ventricle

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; ISCHEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUMETRY;

ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; ORGAN SIZE; PROGNOSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84860115743     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr490     Document Type: Review

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