Noninvasive imaging modalities and sudden cardiac arrest in the young: Can they help distinguish subjects with a potentially life-threatening abnormality from normals?

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 439-451

  Printz, Beth Feller ^a  

^a RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Athletes; Noninvasive imaging; Sudden cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HEART ARREST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MARFAN SYNDROME; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORT; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUDDEN DEATH; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORTS; SPORTS MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862679532     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0169-z     Document Type: Review

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