CT attenuation measurements are valuable to discriminate pledgets used in prosthetic heart valve implantation from paravalvular leakage

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1017, 2012, Pages

  Habets, J ^a   Meijer, T S ^a   Meijer, R C A ^a   Mali, W P Th M ^a   Vonken, E J P A ^a   Budde, R P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; POLITEF;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; PARAVALVULAR LEAKAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SUTURING METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; AORTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMORRHAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUTURES; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866112637     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/29602784     Document Type: Article

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