Current clinical applications of transthoracic three-dimensional echocardiography

Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-22

  Badano, Luigi P ^a   Boccalini, Francesca ^a   Muraru, Denisa ^a   Dal Bianco, Lucia ^a   Peluso, Diletta ^a   Bellu, Roberto ^a   Zoppellaro, Giacomo ^a   Iliceto, Sabino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Left atrium; Left ventricle; Mitral valve; Right ventricle; Three dimensional echocardiography; Tricuspid valve

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GEOMETRY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84865164965     PISSN: 19754612     EISSN: 20059655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4250/jcu.2012.20.1.1     Document Type: Review

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