Echocardiography and coronary CT angiography imaging of variations in coronary anatomy and coronary abnormalities in athletic children: Detection of coronary abnormalities that create a risk for sudden death

Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 225-233

  Attili, Anil ^a   Hensley, Allison K ^a   Jones, Fredrick D ^a   Grabham, Jason ^a   Disessa, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary arteries; coronary CT angiography; echocardiography; normal and abnormal coronary anatomy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA SINUS ANEURYSM; ATHLETE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FAINTNESS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOOTBALL; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART MURMUR; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RATE AND RHYTHM; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATHLETES; CHILD; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; CORONARY VESSELS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873732107     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12030     Document Type: Review

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