Detection of right-to-left atrial communication using agitated saline contrast imaging: Experience with 1162 patients and recommendations for echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-102

  Marriott, Kate ^a   Manins, Vance ^a   Forshaw, Anthony ^a   Wright, Jeremy ^a   Pascoe, Roess ^a  

^a GREENSLOPES PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agitated saline; Echocardiogram; Patent foramen ovale; Valsalva

Indexed keywords

AGITATED SALINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGITATED SALINE CONTRAST INJECTION; ARTICLE; COLOR FLOW IMAGING; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; IMAGING; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARADOXICAL SHUNTING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT TO LEFT ATRIAL COMMUNICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHUNTING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSPULMONARY SHUNTING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 84871398860     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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