Clinical utility of three-dimensional echocardiography for the evaluation of ventricular function

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 184-195

  Biswas, Santanu ^a   Ananthasubramaniam, Karthikeyan ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

2D echocardiography; 3D echocardiography; dyssynchrony; left ventricular function; right ventricular function; speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WORKFLOW;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84880132645     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: 15384683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CRD.0b013e3182815af2     Document Type: Review

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