Diagnostic performance of handheld echocardiography for the assessment of basic cardiac morphology and function: A validation study in routine cardiac Patients

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 887-894

  Prinz, Christian ^a   Dohrmann, Jelena ^a   Buuren, Frank Van ^a   Bitter, Thomas ^a   Bogunovic, Nikola ^a   Horstkotte, Dieter ^a   Faber, Lothar ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

handheld ultrasound scanner; interrater variability; intrarater variability; pocket echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HANDHELD ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY SCANNER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HIGH END ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY SCANNER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERRATER VARIABILITY; INTRARATER VARIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866098355     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2012.01728.x     Document Type: Article

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