Importance of adequately performed valsalva maneuver to detect patent foramen ovale during transesophageal echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1337-1343

  Rodrigues, Ana Clara ^a   Picard, Michael H ^b   Carbone, Aime ^a   Arruda, Ana Lúcia ^a   Flores, Thaís ^a   Klohn, Juliana ^a   Furtado, Meive ^a   Lira Filho, Edgar B ^a   Cerri, Giovanni G ^a   Andrade, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Patent foramen ovale; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography; Valsalva maneuver

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CVA; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PFO; TEE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TTE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

BRAZIL; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 84886718816     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2013.07.016     Document Type: Article

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